By Augustine Wasef The quenched flame charred selectively Without appetite for some dwellings, Mythologies of the mind were telling, But no angels dwelt retrospectively. Abandon your belongings, We marvel at planes dousing We must be more than housing And a vessel for our longing Thank you for choosing Inflection Magazine and human authorship. Image credit: Pixabay/ojkumena

By Augustine Wasef The inexplicable handprints pictured above are from the Cueva de las Manos cave complex, which contains art dating from 7300 BC to 700 AD. The academic community has searched for more than a century for an explanation and has championed relatively utilitarian explanations for prehistoric cave paintings. But to claim that these handprints were merely just serving a ritual purpose is to ignore the actual intention. We do not create art to satisfy some imagina

Science has been, seemingly eternally, a group of disparate theories with only the weak unifying theme of the search for knowledge about the universe. Until the late 20th century when a ragtag group of scientists embarked on a seemingly absurd quest - to unify every branch of science, and by extension the entirety of our knowledge about the universe, into a united and coherent theory. They started a frenzy of research where a multitude of papers were released and increasingly