He argued that Sisyphus is no slave but an artist — that his endless alternation of the struggle to rise followed by mingled relief and acceptance of the fall and then the commitment to struggle ...

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Sisyphus Training is a simulator-style game that puts you in the same situation as the namesake mythological character.

If Sisyphus were Canadian, he would be eternally damned to shovel a driveway only to have a snowplow drive by one minute after he finished, throwing up a rock-solid snowy mountain range the ...

Sisyphus Simulator's inaugural Season 1 Battlepass debuted with special in-game accessories, boosters, Clone Coins, and more.

Hopeful Pessimism, the title of the philosopher Mara van der Lugt ’s new book, perfectly captures this oxymoronic attitude. It is an attempt to redeem pessimism’s Debbie Downer reputation. For ...

At last, God heeded Sisyphus’s prayer—a plea he had been making for countless centuries. Each time, he hoisted the rock onto his shoulders, convinced that this would be the time it ascended ...

A new class of fat cells makes people healthier. The cells consume energy and produce heat through seemingly pointless biochemical reactions.

"But to write my own story, to have closure no matter the outcome, it’s a gamble I’m willing to take — to climb even if there is no summit," Gao writes.

A New York City rat is being compared to “Sisyphus” after it was spotted making a never-ending climb up a descending escalator.