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Eternal Surprise of the Careless Mind

Memory is a funny, fickle thing. In tech right now, it is especially so. Not only because the cost of the physical hardware to store it has skyrocketed in recent years due to AI driven demand. The more abstract kind has also been put to the test in the trial

Eternal Surprise of the Careless Mind
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Ghost Stories: bibliotherapy, grief, and learning to survive

Death is the last great literary taboo. On a sunny day or a fire-lit night, a book that reminds you that you, or the ones you love, could vanish at any moment is not the natural choice. Only once the loss occurs do people grasp for someone else’s

Ghost Stories: bibliotherapy, grief, and learning to survive
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The old and new of literary plagiarism

T.S. Eliot is misquoted as saying “good writers borrow, great writers steal”. What he actually wrote was: “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The thin line between plagiarism and ‘drawing

The old and new of literary plagiarism