Category: General

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! If the imminent approach of the world’s least romantic holiday dedicated to romance isn’t exclamation-worthy to you, know you’re not alone. Rebelling against the traditions tied to Feb. 14 seems to have become as popular as reveling in Russell Stover’s-fueled giddiness. To help you out with your iconoclasm — or at […]

Kate Young makes recipes for her virtual Little Library Cafe, reimagining meals from her favourite fiction and writing about the significance that each book has in her life. Here she picks a selection of her recipes, with quotes from the books. Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/gallery/2015/jul/09/cook-books-food-bloggers-recipes-inspired-by-books-in-pictures

Robots can be enlightened and civilised if they just read out stories, were told. We asked an especially well-read android, HOMER16, what it made of 1984, Hamlet et al. An encouraging report from the Georgia Institute of Technology argues that it is possible to inculcate moral values into robots by exposing them to the fictions […]