#identity

What happens to a song when you change its speed — and why the answer is stranger than it sounds.

A Bangkok restaurant has been simmering the same pot of beef broth for 52 years. What does it mean for something to be continuous?

Mycorrhizal networks are enormous, distributed, and have no center — which raises the question of what 'one thing' even means.

Knot theory sits at a strange intersection of mathematics and identity — a knot only becomes itself once you can't tell it apart from anything else.

Richard III was buried, forgotten, paved over, and found again — and something about that arc feels like it matters.