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TARANTINOCRACY
Thirty-one years after the triumph of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino once again became the central figure of the Cannes Film Festival. His bold entrance onto the stage of the Grand Lumière Palace and the dramatic mic drop at the end of a short but fiery speech caused a real stir, sharply defusing the pompous atmosphere of the opening ceremony — a spectacle that is always carefully calculated and politically charged
STRANGE THEORY OF STRANGE DARWIN: Something’s Off with Evolution
The theory of evolution is one of the cornerstones of modern science, yet even two centuries later, scientists continue to revise it. Natural selection is increasingly being described not as a struggle, but as a path to cooperation. Evolutionary changes turn out to be not random, but predictable. Was everything really the way Charles Darwin believed it to be?
BORIS BURDA: How Something Even Scarier Than Chewing Gum Was Found
In 1976, American wrestler Michael Farina was repeatedly denied entry to the wrestling mat. What eventually saved him was chewing gum. How?
OUR BRAIN IS A MELOMANE: How Music Heals Diseases
If you think you’re «just listening» to music, your brain would most likely disagree. Music matters so much to it that it’s willing to go to great lengths — even mobilize the body’s resources to heal serious illnesses
OLEG NAUMENKO: The anchor lies within yourself
Oleh Naumenko has been studying Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga for many years. Originally from Western Ukraine, he once set out in search of a deeper understanding of the evolutionary path of human consciousness — a journey that eventually led him to southern India. A former businessman, he has now been living in Auroville, an international spiritual community, for nearly twenty years, where he works and continues his path as a practitioner of Integral Yoga
Monthly Review
«QUANTUM TELEPORTATION»: A New Technological Breakthrough
Physicists from Oxford have, for the first time, scaled quantum computing using distributed teleportation technology — and this could change everything. From «parallel universes» to Grover’s algorithm, from cryptography to molecular modeling — the world is entering an era where «impossible» problems become solvable
ОH, LOVE: The Unjustly Slandered Queen and Prime Minister
The story of Cardinal Mazarin and Queen Anne of Austria is not merely a courtly intrigue, but a drama of two strong individuals who, despite court gossip, religious conventions, and political hostility, found refuge in each other
SUBOTIV — BOHDAN’S TOMB
Do you know what is depicted on the reverse side of the five-hryvnia banknote? The white building with a decorative gable is none other than the Illinska Church in the village of Subotiv in the Chyhyryn region. It served as the family tomb of one of the most prominent Ukrainian hetmans, Bohdan Khmelnytsky
FROM A SOLDIER’S DIARY: Memories of World War II
Heorhiy Petrovych Savenko was born and spent his entire life in Ukraine — in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. He served throughout the war in an airborne rifle regiment, ending it in May 1945 in Prague. After the war, he became a surgeon and spent over 40 years saving lives in peacetime. Fragments of his diary — memories recorded decades later — have reached the Huxley editorial team
ALEXANDER RODNYANSKY: the exit into Loveless
An interview with Alexander Rodnyansky — the most renowned Ukrainian film producer in the world. Rodnyansky reflects on the role of cinema in times of change, the intersection of personal and historical destiny, on degradation and hope, on freedom that demands responsibility, and on what remains constant even in a world where empires collapse and former reference points disappear. Film critic Andriy Alferov spoke with Alexander Rodnyansky about the possible «guilt» of Russian cinema, the creation of a new morality, and his latest book Loveless
FREUD’S UNSCIENTIFIC SCIENCE: What the Founder of Psychoanalysis Is Still Not Forgiven For
May 6 marks the birthday of Sigmund Freud, the thinker who radically transformed psychology and the humanities. By crossing disciplinary boundaries, he turned psychology into a new «queen of the sciences»