The “Enfant Terrible of Science,” and More

“For every five people who read this book four will go insane”...

The Zabihollah Mansouri riddle. Was one of the most popular literary figures of 20th-century Iran an utter charlatan?... more »

“Sound directs our passage through time. It shapes our orientation to the future moment and also to the moment when the future stops.”... more »

In 1919, Charles Hoy Fort, the “enfant terrible of science,” wrote Book of the Damne…