In its simplest form, a knife’s edge is a pair of angles ground into steel. Keeping those angles consistent while sharpening, then, is the key to restoring the cutting ability of the place where they ...

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The painting up for sale at Sotheby’s depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer in AI and computer science. In 1952 ...

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One could argue that every great painting produces two works of art: the canvas and the surface where the pigments are mixed. The Artist’s Palette, forthcoming from Princeton University Press on ...

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Learn how to achieve a razor-sharp edge on your knife using just a few simple materials. This method involves two pieces of wood, a piece of stainless steel, and an iron, combined with three types ...