In late September 2022, I had recently moved from the U.S. to the Netherlands when I heard that my violin teacher from Dallas ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” a six-volume novel that deployed minutely detailed descriptions of the mundane (making tea, changing a diaper) in a refusal to obscure reality, became a global ...

Notations made in the margins of a 16th century edition of Ptolemy’s The Almagest were likely scrawled by an auspicious author: Galileo Galilei Handwriting analysis determined that the famed ...

OCR Extractor is a simple Obsidian plugin that uses OCR to extract text from documents, images, etc. embedded in your notes. Different OCR services (free or paid, local or cloud-based) are available, ...

A person sitting behind Bondi would tell her which page to turn to as Democratic representatives questioned the attorney general. Attorney General Pam Bondi once again relied on a cheat sheet of ...

For years now, the rise of manga has meant that North American comic book companies have taken notice of the Japanese medium for storytelling. In fact, manga has routinely outpaced traditional comic ...

Investors view the quantum computing market as having significant long-term upside. D-Wave Quantum is currently a minor player in this nascent market, and it has an uncertain future. Its forward price ...

President Donald Trump sent a text on Jan 18 to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in which he complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer will think “purely of ...

For several years, University of Iowa literature professor Anna Barker has produced a steady blizzard of commentary on classic French literature: Hugo, Stendahl, Dumas, Balzac. In her debut book, 13 ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are scattered, incomplete, or just not working as hard as they could for you? Imagine a tool that doesn’t just store your ideas but actively helps you refine, ...

You may have a karaoke song that you love belting out at the top of your lungs, but writer Elizabeth McCracken is definitely not someone who wants to grab the mic and get up on stage. So, Elizabeth, ...

WASHINGTON — It was March 2020 when veteran journalist Ryan Lizza found an apology note in his DC home that wasn’t meant for him. His live-in girlfriend, Olivia Nuzzi, had penned a letter on hotel ...