The Main Types Of Ghost Story, And How To Recognize Them
What are ghosts? There’s a lot of debate about this – inside and outside fiction. Are ghosts the unquiet spirits of the restless dead? Or three-dimensional recordings of past tragedies? Non-human entities without bodies who can nevertheless interact with us? There are legends (and stories) about ghostly animals – or trees, or even houses –…
The Weirdest Reasons Why Aliens Created Humanity
Science fiction is full of stories in which extraterrestrials engineer life on Earth — it’s one of the main ways we explain humanoid aliens, after all. But why would aliens want to create the human race? It seems to be a lot of trouble to go to. Here are the most outlandish reasons for aliens…
Walter Isaacson Talks AI, Apple Watch, and His New Book The Innovators
The stories we tell ourselves about genius and geniuses are often stories about history’s great men. But Walter Isaacson’s latest project is different. A biographer in the strict sense, Isaacson wrote the hugely successful 2011 book on Steve Jobs following biographies of Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger. (The fact that Jobs approached Isaacson to…
