‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. This small ...

The English language is filled with words that surprise not only because of their length or sound, but because of the oddly specific ideas they capture. One such word is “defenestration,” a term that ...

Do we need a word for doing it in reverse? By John Hodgman David writes: My friend Tim and I watch a lot of action films. We agree on the definition of defenestration, but can’t agree on what ...

A multimedia exhibition at ArtHaus commemorates "Defenestration," the installation at the Hugo Hotel created by Brian Goggin in 1997 in which furniture seems to be tumbling from windows. The abandoned ...

Brian Goggin sometimes relaxes with a book on his blue couch, which wouldn't be remarkable except that the couch hangs off the edge of the rooftop of the abandoned Hugo Hotel high above San ...

I've decided to do an end to end rewrite of all three books in the Defenestration series, serialize them in this blog on Fridays, and ask for your help as reviewers/commentators. To facilitate this Mr ...