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If an experience occurs online, how much of an experience is it really? The sociologist Nathan Jurgenson has used the phrase “digital dualism” to critique the fallacy that what happens online is less real than what happens in the analog world. A looming sense of unreality informs the notion that…

Savvy guys like Matt Yglesias, the newsletter writer and former Vox and Slate blogger, sometimes critique bad political punditry by pointing out that it often boils down to saying things like, If politician wants to win, they should adopt all of my preferred policies. It’s a fair point: A lot…

Speaking via Zoom from the States, Squirrel Flower (also known as Ella Williiams) is tired but doesn’t appear so. Obligatory technical difficulties aside, we speak about the concepts behind her music videos, being mistaken for an influencer and how being on tour influenced her second album, ‘planet (i)’. Ella’s last…

Ultrasound can be a neuromodulator—to increase or decrease the likelihood that neurons will fire. Exactly how this works remains unclear, but it likely results from the physical “shaking” of neurons.Illustration by Jackie Niam / Shutterstock A few years ago, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, I escaped the noisy midday…

Football! Beautiful to watch, not so much to listen to. Oh sure, the thud of studs on shin guard, the rustle of a ball in the back of the net has a certain sonic poetry to it, but we're referring to the songs, the audio artefacts that litter in bargain…

EMBARGOED FOR MONDAY 00:01 JUNE 5. There may still be a year to go before The Big Jubilee Lunch, but practising was well underway this weekend as neighbours across the UK joined in the opening weekend of The Big Lunch 2021. Bunting and baking was out in force as communities…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 June 2021 / 1,253 Views Publisher Big Sugar and developer Glowfish Interactive have announced action adventure game, Trifox, for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. It will launch in Q1 2022. View the announcement…

Arno Botha. (Photo by Anton Geyser/Gallo Images) South Africa's franchises will have to go into isolation for 10 days before their tour matches against the British & Irish Lions.Rassie Erasmus, the national director of rugby, revealed that protocol as part of the effort to keep the integrity of the Boks…

It’s been over a year since NBA fans have been able to cheer on their respective teams in person, but that has changed significantly since the beginning of the NBA playoffs. Recently many franchises eased capacity restrictions and upped the number of spectators allowed into their venues. It’s been great.…

Entry #203 in the Dylan to English Dictionary, billed by author A.J. Weberman as “the most useful and authoritative translation of Bob Dylan’s poetry you can own,” provides the Dylanological definition of garbage as: “Empty talk, vacuousness, inferior work produced by other artists.” And Weberman, who lays claim to coining…