In June 2022, Blake Lemoine, a Senior software engineer at Google, claimed that one of the company’s products is a sentient being with a consciousness and a soul. Field experts have not backed…

“The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” is a timeless work of art. Rejection, loneliness, ecocide, plague … the warnings of Coleridge’s poem resound down the ages and reach out to us even today.…

Few of us are in any doubt that the pandemic will change our societies and that we are not just living a mere “new normal” phase waiting to go back to the “old…

“The Rise of Skywalker” is the ninth and final episode of the saga. One should consider, though, that episodes 4,5 and 6 refer to events happened some 20 years before 1, 2 and…

An afternoon at the tennis club between a first serve shot straight into the net and an ambitious second serve turned out too weak. If I hit my first serve right, there’s nothing…

Westway to the world. “London Calling” London, Victoria Park, April 30th  1978, Rock Against Racism, surely a milestone in many ways, though not an easy one to make. The first RAR was, actually, very…