Medieval Robots

The past is shit.  This is what I learned on a recent trip to the UK. I happened to be in York during the filming of the pilot of "Kn...

Rail travel is making a comeback. Not actual rail travel (at least in the United States), but fictional rail travel. Dystopic rail travel. ...

I recently saw "The Mysteries" --back for an extended run--at The Flea Theater in New York. The play is actually 52 short plays, ...

It's nice to be able to invite a guest to your wedding and know that he or she isn't going to make a terrible speech or t hrow up o...

The humanities are in crisis! The crisis seems to be that the number of students who choose to study humanities subjects in college is in s...

I've been doing some sifting through the year's news stories about robotics and robots to do a round-up post. But then I came across...

I recently started learning something new:  chess. The Lewis Chessmen.    I never played it, I didn't know anyone who played it, ...