Buy it here. 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' by Douglas Hofstadter (1979) A logical-philosophical-computational tour de force. Very long, very rewarding. I read it between the end of high school and the ...

These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism ...

“The Matrix is everywhere; it is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work ...

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. New this week by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard St. Martin's The conservative commentator evaluates the legacies of American presidents ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...

Sebastian Bach is a maniac. Whether or not it was on purpose, the spotlight part of this blow to the head is Bach’s reaction after the fact. After being hit in the head with a bottle ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Today’s youth should be very grateful to be alive now, in the age of smartphones and AI. These godsends were unimaginable ...

Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest — and everything else in between! She joins having written for several popular news ...

Project Escher is your basic Cartesian filament printer, but with a twist: it has five heads. These print heads work together to build large objects very quickly. Autodesk open sourced the design ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...