Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Shakespeare and Company

Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Shakespeare and Company


Greek would have to go “because it is so hard to spell with, and so impossible to read after you get it spelled,” and research in math “was not suited to the dignity of a college, which should deal in facts, not guesses and suppositions.” Ian, who recently purchased a smartwatch for his youngest daughter, writes that the low end of the kid-watch market is full of useless “Dick Tracy novelties.” So he went full Apple, and he has found that the watch is the perfect training “phone” for his kid. — From Charlie Warzel’s “The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT” Germans sometimes call their country “Das Land der Dichter und Denker,” or the land of what two vocations—the former of which would apply to, say, Rilke, Schiller, and Goethe, and the latter to Hegel, Heidegger, and Arendt (or you right now)?

Author: Drew Goins


Published at: 2025-12-01 21:45:13

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