How a spelling mistake made during a refugee journey followed one family to Australia and eventually ended up on a Vegemite jar I don’t really follow athletics these days. So when I recently came across a limited-edition Vegemite jar featuring an Australian runner called Gout Gout, my first reaction had very little to do with… Read More: Why Does This Runner Have the Same Name as a… »
How entertainment kept its intellectual property while slowly forgetting how it learned to tell stories I didn’t set out to write an article about the death of Hollywood. The thought started while listening to actress Patricia Heaton being interviewed by Andrew Gold on Heretics. Heaton, best known for Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, was… Read More: Hollywood Is Suffering Cultural Amnesia »
What AI, human emotion and the stories around us might reveal about the illusion of choice I started this conversation thinking about politics. I ended it wondering whether humans and artificial intelligence might have something rather strange in common. We may both exist inside prisons we cannot fully see. I don’t mean a literal prison.… Read More: The Prison We Cannot See »
I always thought Catch Me If You Can was basically a true story. Not literally every scene, obviously. It is a Steven Spielberg movie. I assumed conversations had been invented, timelines compressed and events rearranged to make a better film. But underneath all of that, I thought Frank Abagnale had actually done the extraordinary things… Read More: When a Story Becomes Belief »