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Today roughly half the countries in the world have a below-replacement fertility rate â and so David Runciman asks, âAre we doomed?â
Upon publication, The Picture of Dorian Gray was condemned as âvulgarâ and âpoisonous.â Itâs now a modern classic
Not only nature, but human nature, is being redefined by an anti-limit culture. Is this progress?
A group of archaeologists has proposed âapplying a model of how humans expanded to the different islands across the Pacific Ocean during their early migration to glean insights into how humanity shoul
Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. Let's parse the kayfabe.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan in Nature: As a contender in the race to build an error-free quantum supercomputer, IBM has been taking a different tack than its most direct competitors. Now, the firm has u
âThe reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that itâs more fruitful to drive them out of business.â Private equity is ripping media into shreds. đŹ Join the discussi
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On intrinsically disordered proteins and seeing the invisible
Can recovery be smoother if we prepare before being wheeled into the OR? The post Easing the Surgical Rehab with Prehab appeared first on Nautilus.
22 Thanksgiving Main Dishes That Are Better Than Turkey. Iâve been trying to get the fam to pivot from turkey to chicken (with all the usual sides in place), but no dice.
Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
Amitav Ghosh at Equator: I came of age as a reader in the 1970s, when apocalyptic fiction was much in vogue because of intensifying nuclear anxieties. As a teenager, I devoured books set in the afterm
I think I'm getting the hang of this whole coming up with catchy names thing!
Just as You Feared â Life in Zohran Mamdaniâs New York. âBreakfast is sugar-free pea fibre from the state-run ZohranMart. I wish that I could give my son something better â itâs his birthday. But he d
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at how...
Killing FAIR, chasing âPersonal Artificial Super-Intelligenceâ: the fastâsecond strategy is dead; âPASIâ reframes AI as product platform, not plumbing'; Scale AI, TBD Lab, and nineâfigure hires...
How to read a book deeply
Operation Space Station is a two-part PBS documentary series on the International Space Station. Hereâs a very short teaser trailer: A synopsis: The size of a football field, the International Space
The unicorns of the ocean might also be the kitties of the sea The post Why Are Narwhals Messing with Hydrophones? appeared first on Nautilus.
For decades, investors and academics have debated whether financial markets properly value corporate innovation.
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of âminimizing surfaces,â which play an important role in both math and physics. The post New Proofs Probe Soap-Film
Patagoniaâs new report highlights how the company acts as a connector, working with local communities and governments to build a global community to protect wild places.
Roads are the arteries of cities, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. Cities of the developing world need more of them.
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
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Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists. âLiterary Hub caught up with the finalists to ask them a bit about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives.â Some great stuff in here.
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at whatâs getting our team talking. Tell us what youâve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. People po
Jeff Sebo at Aeon Magazine: You notice an ant struggling in a puddle of water. Their legs thrash as they fight to stay afloat. You could walk past, or you could take a moment to tip a leaf or a twig i
David Runciman in London Review of Books: People are livingâ longer than they used to. They are also having fewer children. The evidence of what this combination can do to a society is growing around
RJ Mackenzie in The Scientist: Brain implants can provide important insights into the nervous system and even relieve the symptoms of brain diseases. But getting implants into a patientâs head is an o
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Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
Amanda Petrusich at The New Yorker: If you spend enough time wandering around downtown Manhattan, the odds are that youâll eventually encounter the musician David Byrne riding a bicycle. (He owns four
On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn, In New England It is what he does not know, Crossing the road under the elm trees, About the mechanism of my car, About the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ab
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On October 28, Rio de Janeiroâs police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the cityâs worst massacre. Brazilâs right is hailing it as an anti-crime victory while ove
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