40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
Scientific American

Ancient art could hold clues to the origins of written language

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
Beyond the Bookends

Summary of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

I made a summary of The Correspondent to remind you of the plot, characters, and important moments in the book for your next ...