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HISTORICAL FACTS: Nietzsche | History Defined

“Can Your Brain Keep Up?”: Beat This 24-Question Philosophy & Culture Quiz

Prove you are a great thinker with this 24-question philosophy & culture quiz. From Latin phrases to iconic philosophers, to political revolutions, thought experiments, and famous literary works, this challenge will take you across more than 2000 years of ideas that shaped the modern world. You'll encounter figures such as…

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Meet the internet movement trying to tackle the manosphere. It’s called BreadTube

The manosphere has frequently featured in news headlines this year. Some of these have focused on how the movement looks on YouTube – a platform that research suggests uses recommender algorithms to boost extreme content.

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89 Philosophy Memes That Won’t Cure Your Existential Dread But Can At Least Make You Chuckle

Whether it’s full-on existential dread or just late-night overthinking, philosophy memes are basically the internet’s way of making big ideas a little easier… and a lot funnier. These aren’t your usual lighthearted jokes or cat memes. Instead, they tap into the stuff we all quietly think about — the meaning…

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‘Destroy! Be courageous!’ – 2 shimmering meditations on grief, nihilism and motherhood

In 1983, Erin Vincent was 14 years old. Like most adolescents, she was beginning to shed her childhood and starting to grow into a more durable, flexible adult skin. But when her parents were killed by a speeding tow truck in western Sydney, she found herself frozen in time, immobilised…

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Life on Mars? Bowie was questing far deeper

Major Tom’s journey from lost spaceman to junkie to alien idol was never about sci-fi cheap thrills

Evening Standard

With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation

The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time

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If You Are Going Through An Existential Crisis, These 75 Philosophical Memes Might Be Relatable

These memes take life’s biggest questions and condense them into sharp, silly snapshots of existential humor. Whether you’re wrestling with the nature of reality or just trying to remember where you left your keys, each post offers a moment of clarity… or at least a good laugh.

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Lady Gaga review – from skeletons to sexy plague doctors, this is a glorious, ridiculous spectacle

Move over Chappell Roan – Gaga’s eighth world tour is a full-blooded return to OTT camp, with a Nietzschean nemesis and a zombified crowd of fans driven berserk with glee

The Guardian - UK

A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling

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Alec Baldwin talks his love for 'Peanuts' and the 'immeasurable' effects of his trial

Alec Baldwin says the year since his trial ended has been a lot better than the years before it

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Johnny Depp’s new film about Modigliani is in danger of downplaying his importance as an artist – an art expert’s verdict

In 2018 an oil painting of a nude by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani broke a world record when it sold at Sotheby’s for US$157.2 million (£115.2m). It was created in 1917, at a time when Modigliani was unable to sell his pictures for more than a few francs.

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113 Chaotic Memes For When Life Gets A Little Boring

A wall of superb chaos. Cursed energy. Inside jokes. Wonderfully unhinged memes.

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Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair

There are some tremendous works in this first UK show focused solely on the Norwegian artist’s vast output of portraits – but the omissions are glaring

The Guardian - UK

David Ellis reviews Paradise: the best of Sri Lanka, without the air miles

Paradise has the sense of a room in which to discuss architecture and Nietzsche and whether patterned clothes should be outlawed, says David Ellis

Evening Standard

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The case for lying to kids about Santa – from a philosopher

I have a vivid memory of the moment I realised Santa didn’t exist. I was around six years old, it was the height of summer, and I was sitting on the step outside our back door, thinking about God. The existence of God, back then, was something that annoyed me:…

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This pied piper mouse lured me in with its promises of complete adjustability but it's very clearly a demon in disguise

It might, however, be the ultimate ergonomic peripheral.

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We’re living in the era of ‘main character syndrome’. But what if we’re just not that important?

A little self-awareness isn’t a bad thing, but the advice of Jemima Kirke is right – we might be thinking about ourselves too much, says author Róisín Lanigan

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The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world

The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before

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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand's hero burns the world down when he doesn't get his way. Her fans run the world – should we worry?

Our cultural touchstones series looks at books that have made an impact.

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"Yellowjackets" goes "Flatliners"

Van Palmer (Yay! It's Van!) mentions a few movies in this episode, but one popular '90s thriller takes top billing

Reason

Marc Andreessen on A.I., Crypto, Nietzsche, and Why We Need More Elon Musks

The venture capitalist and prognosticator on his hopes for the future and his fears about the present.

The Guardian - UK

Spring Walks review – not even a trampolining goat can save this feelbad TV

Armed with a selfie stick, Dragons’ Den’s Sara Davies strides forth to try to reclaim the countryside. If only she were as interesting or poetic as the captions – or the animals …

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Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Signal Fires; If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Love Marriage – review

A thoughtful novel about a family secret, an insightful investigation into animal intelligence and Monica Ali’s clever comedy of manners

The Hindu

How Nietzsche read the city’s woes two centuries ago

‘We will fix it by the next monsoon’: this has been the motto of Bengaluru’s authorities for some decades now

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