When something unexpected happens to us we still tend to ask “why me?” – and it’s difficult to know where to look for an answer. While scientific analysis can provide us with better general ...

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An oracle well devoted to Apollo recently discovered in Athens (all photos by Jutta Stroszeck, courtesy Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athens) “Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true ...

Tencent has launched its Oracle Bones Corpus, an online platform and database dedicated to the study of the ancient inscriptions, that uses AI tools to help researchers translate those writings by ...

It occurred to me that ChatGPT was really just an oracle, like the I Ching. So I thought: why don’t I ask ChatGPT and the I Ching the same questions? Why don’t I ask ChatGPT what it thought of the I ...