Slow Thoughts

It was a scorching hot day in the Spanish heartland when, on a whim, I took the road less travelled, following signs towards the alluringly mysterious “Ciudad Encantada”.

I’m not typically one to binge, but recently consumed the full catalogue of Daniel Craig’s Bond movies.

If Swedish-American theoretical physicist Max Tegmark is right, there would be an infinite number of parallel universes in which replicas of him have made the exact same choices in life as he has.

There’s a device in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that can get you anywhere you want in the blink of an eye.

I hear that people on TikTok are inventing words for sensations that apparently have previously not been worthy of their own names.

Few people outside science know the name John Stewart Bell.

The owner of a luxury yacht disappears shortly after docking in the harbour of Barcelona.

If you were new to Swedish society around the turn of the millennium and looked for a shortcut to understanding its zeitgeist, you could have done worse than spending just over three hours watching Fyra nyanser av brunt, featuring the highly influential c…

In Richard Flanagan’s long-form essay Question 7, the writer sets out to document what really happened as his father endured unspeakable hardship in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.

The steamer on which story plays out was built in Whitby in 1877 and was originally named Golden Grove.