Occult-scientific manuals for rulers were common in early modern Persia (1500-1800). Oil portrait of Nadir Shah of Persia (1732-1747). Credit: Public Domain The early modern Persian world produced a ...

When I delved into "brain science" previously, I wrote about the "three instincts of the brain." This is a quote from Naruyuki Hayashi's "Seven Habits Bad for the Brain," which states that the brain ...

I’ve only played one table-top RPG session in my life, and it didn’t go great. Despite the rude DM and a one-shot that haunts me to this day, I’m still enamoured by video games that so faithfully tap ...

The game is basically Disco Elysium but inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s a lot of fun. The game is basically Disco Elysium but inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s a lot of fun. is a ...

Weaving Terry Pratchett, Terry Gilliam and more, Esoteric Ebb is a comedic D&D adventure where a waylaid Cleric is tasked with solving a crime, days before the world's first election. Nevertheless, I ...

Hilma’s Ghost (left: Dannielle Tegeder, right: Sharmistha Ray) in front of their painting “Cosmic Altar” (2024) (photo by Max Yawney, courtesy Hilma's Ghost) It’s been almost eight years since Swedish ...

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

Since 1975, video games have been trying to replicate the experience of playing the world’s most famous tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. The actual pen-and-paper game hadn’t been out ...

The question of whether aliens have a grasp of physics is also brought up in Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary [Ed – see page 26 for a review of the film]. Though Rocky’s species, the aliens in the ...

Whiteson’s opening and closing discussion in his article made me think of physicist Werner Heisenberg’s comment that “We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed ...