Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters

Water has been used metaphorically in works of art, from stories from the Bible to today’s literature. The allegory of fighting nature’s might while drowning in turbulent waters had been widely depicted in works of art for the span of humanity, from stories in the Bible to modern-day literature and visual art. Drowning is an…

Frogger

Frogger

Masayuki Uemura, a hardware engineer at Nintendo, died on December 6, 2021, at the age of 78. In the ’70s and ’80s, Uemura led the development of Nintendo’s earliest home consoles and peripherals. The video games of that generation, with their slow and rudimentary graphics and their signature electronic music, became hits with kids and…

Relationships in the Information Age

Relationships in the Information Age

Those among us who have experienced dating before the age of the internet and smartphones remember a different, simpler way of getting to know other people and sailing into a relationship. Every aspect of that courtship, including romantic and platonic relationships, was conducted on a personal level. Everything you came to find about the other…