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Tag: Writing
How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren’t just little pictures. In fact, most of them aren’t pictures at all.…
AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons, warns Yuval Noah Harari, famous for writing ‘History of Humankind’
Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) poses a greater threat than nuclear weapons.…
Author Ann Patchett on writing amid chaos
Natassja Ebert (Credit: Natassja Ebert) In the latest episode of Influential, US writer Ann Patchett shares how seeing kindness around…
When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!
Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Wikimedia Commons “How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling…
Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More
At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968. That’s how I…