The Slave Boy Who Knew Geometry In one of philosophy's most remarkable scenes, Socrates calls over an uneducated slave boy and proceeds to demonstrate something impossible. Through questioning alone, without teaching anything, Socrates leads the boy to discover the solution to a complex geometric problem. The boy has never studied mathematics. He cannot read. He has received no instruction in the properties of squares and their diagonals. Yet when Socrates asks the right ques

The Shadows on Our Screens Picture this: You wake at 3 a.m., unable to sleep. Without thinking, your hand reaches for the glowing rectangle beside your bed. Within seconds, you're scrolling through an endless stream of images, opinions, outrage, and advertisements. Each swipe brings new shadows dancing across your retina. You see fragments of other people's lives, curated controversies, algorithmic selections designed to keep you watching. You tell yourself you're staying inf