The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our ...

The Government's basic income scheme for artists is set to become a permanent fixture from next year, with 2,000 new places to be made available under Budget 2026. Minister for Culture Patrick ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia. This is a fun, toy project with no commercial intent. All rights to the Visual Basic name, icons, and graphics belong ...

This feature demonstrates three visual card tricks that rely on clarity and presentation rather than complex sleight of hand. Designed to be approachable for beginners, each illusion is broken down in ...

When students dig into a poem for the first time, they don’t always recognize the playfulness that poets use in their language, making it harder for students to get excited about what they are reading ...

The Kentucky Arts Council is now accepting applications for its Kentucky Crafted Program, the Commonwealth’s marketing initiative for professional visual and craft artists. Kentucky Crafted provides ...

Iran has re-emerged at the centre of international attention, following Israeli attacks on the Middle East’s second-largest country on June 13. Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Gulf ...