Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Data-hungry tech ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

One vivid example of technological displacement comes from the early 20th century. In 1890, more than 13,000 companies in the U.S. built horse-drawn carriages. By 1920, fewer than 100 remained.

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear ...

The anti-social century, a sports-memorabilia crime ring, Narendra Modi’s populist facade, and a Christian war on the secular state. Plus Han Kang, the new Rasputins, apocalypse lit, Georgia O ...

In the closing third of the 20th century, that generation looms larger than all the exponential promises of science or ... Then the “Silent ’40s” spawned the Beat Generation of the ’50s, ...

No two composers of the 20th century stand at such diametrically opposing positions and it is a wry coincidence that both should have anniversaries this year — Shostakovich (1906-75) the 50th ...

In 20th Century Boys, there’s a part where a cult releases a deadly gas to cause panic and fear. This idea is inspired by a real event in 1995 when a cult in Tokyo did something similar.

While overshadowed by other poets early in his career, he became an inspiration to the Beat generation in the 1950s and 60s. In comparison to artists of his own time who sought new environments ...

Quick, name a Black Beat poet. Ted Joans, a participant in Greenwich Village’s Beat Generation, counted among his friends celebrated writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Leroi Jones and ...

The Beat Generation was a loosely gathered literary movement that ... “Howl” remains the most well-known Beat poem and is frequently included among the most important poems of the 20th century.