Big Ideas
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.
Artificial Intelligence and the world’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON — The rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence has pushed the world to the brink of a technological revolution that will affect most of the world’s eight billion people. It raises a question of crucial importance: will AI be a force for good or an existential threat?
Artificial Intelligence and the world’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON — The rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence has pushed the world to the brink of a technological revolution that will affect most of the world’s eight billion people. It raises a question of crucial importance: will AI be a force for good or an existential threat?
Storage Space
By Heidi Fisher, My parents’ house is bigger than mine. It is cleaner, better organized, certainly quieter. Retired, my mom has no shortage of time
Al Gofa Interview: Transcending Genres
By Jean Marc Ah-Sen. Montreal-based comics artist Al Gofa has built a career testing out creative ways to mix genres. In his debut graphic novel
Does “Death of an Author” spell the Death of Authors?
By Leah Eichler, James Ledbetter, the executive editor at the Observer, whom I had the pleasure of working with several years ago at Reuters, revealed
Gordon Lightfoot’s Music Was The Soundtrack to My Life
By Bruce Farrell Rosen, He had opened the show that night of June 9, 1978 at the Santa Barbara County Bowl with the words to
What Would Jane Austen Do?
In today’s column, Jane tackles the food obsessed and the case of the sperm donor brother. Have a question for Jane? Email it to editor@esotericamag.com.
Billionaires Vs. Broadcasters
By Leah Eichler, Years ago, I ran the Reuters Online Newsroom, a global operation that determined what news we produced would find its way somewhere
Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Holocaust?
By Leah Eichler I wrote a rather dismissive book review for a The Globe and Mail in Canada in 2002 on a novella called I
Holmes is Where the Heart Is
By Robert Basler, “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” The librarian knew me
A Love Letter to All Women (and Men)
By Rita Jane Gabbett This is a cautionary tale for all the women I love, which, as it turns out, includes all women. It might
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.