In the summer of 2020, at the height of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, HBO Max removed Gone with the Wind from its shelf. Although the streaming service said it would bring it back with a critical introduction, the move was viewed by many as another cultural overreach by the…

In 1861, Orion Clemens from Missouri was appointed Secretary to the Territory of Nevada by President Lincoln. When he traveled west, his younger brother Sam accompanied him. While he fulfilled his official duty, Sam spent some time as a miner in Virginia City, and after failing in the profession, became…

Have you ever woke up in the morning to find the article you posted last night has disappeared? If it indeed happens, what do you think is the reason? Did the blogging platform experience a technical problem? Did you only post the article in your dream? …

I’ve had trouble sleeping all my life. As a teenager, after spending the whole afternoon playing Chinese chess, I would lie awake in bed at night, re-living the games step by step in my mind. In college, my roommates and I had the habit of retiring to our bunks to…

And why it’s such a huge success. — What is 2022’s most popular word game? Wordle, of course. If you haven’t heard of it, you are out. But don’t worry, it’s not too late. Just read this short article, and you’ll become an expert in no time. The goal of the game is to guess a secret 5-letter…

For a person as well-known as Shakespeare, it is a well-known fact that very little is known about him. In the past 400 years, Shakespeare scholars meticulously combed through all Elizabethan England archives that might have the faintest possibility of containing any relevant information. They managed to ascertain answers to…

Shakespeare in a Divided America, James Shapiro, 2021

1 Meta, according to Zuckerberg, means “beyond.” The term “metaverse” was coined by Neal Stephenson in his science fiction novel “Snow Crash.” …