AI can summarize an email, but it can't make a genuine intellectual contribution. Right? Wrong, as Yascha Mounk found out
AI can summarize an email, but it can't make a genuine intellectual contribution. Right? Wrong, as Yascha Mounk found out
David Brooks on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets right, and why Brooks is leaving The New York Times for Yale University
David Brooks on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets right, and why Brooks is leaving The New York Times for Yale University
Often invoked, rarely read, the work of the philosopher Alexandre Kojève is finally landing in the spotlight
Often invoked, rarely read, the work of the philosopher Alexandre Kojève is finally landing in the spotlight
Business/product advice: launch it three times ....
Business/product advice: launch it three times. âThe vast majority of the time, the single biggest problem you have is that nobody knows you exist, and nobody gives a damn about what you do.â
Mohammed Hanifâs âRebel English Academyâ
Michael Gorra in the New York Times: The police in authoritarian states are expected and assumed to be corrupt, and ditto for lawyers, judges and the military. But doctors? Apparently so. Late in the
Wednesday links: an emotional maelstrom
Live with Phillips OBrien and Marc Polymeropolous
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien's live video
Coffee Break: Paramount Still Reaching for WBD as CBS Misplays Colbert-Talarico Interview
The Larry and David Ellison media empire is still in the hunt to acquire WBD even as their CBS triggered the Streisand effect with some clumsy censorship.
Newly Discovered Prehistoric Crocodilian Had Legs That Went All the Way Up
This stilt-legged reptile stalked the grasslands of Triassic Britain The post Newly Discovered Prehistoric Crocodilian Had Legs That Went All the Way Up appeared first on Nautilus.
A Sense of Getting Closer
With music by Max Cooper and visuals by Conner Griffith, A Sense of Getting Closer is a music video that was inspired by a quote submitted to Cooperâs On Being project: I have a sense of getting close
The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
Adam Marblestone at Asterisk: In the early years of modern deep learning, the brain was a North Star. Ideas like hippocampal replay â the brainâs way of rehearsing past experience â offered templates
three times is political action
the levers not working
Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science: 2025
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Searching for Birds , an engaging visualization of eBird...
Searching for Birds, an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds.
The Retiree Who Inspired the Wright Brothers to Take Flight
Octave Chanuteâs engineering prowess laid the foundation for powered planes The post The Retiree Who Inspired the Wright Brothers to Take Flight appeared first on Nautilus.
How to raise children . "It's wild to me...
How to raise children. âItâs wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is.â
The Repossessed
Inside a memory labyrinth, inheritance turns out to be something far more dangerous than money.
Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Last year, the US may have recorded the lowest murder rate in its 250 year history. Other crimes have poorer historical data, but are at least at ~50 year lows. Th
Personal finance links: the rationality spectrum
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at why...
The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell
Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals. The post The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell first
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like...
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like cyclists but the sport has been revolutionized by the US teamâs invention of the âbump draftingâ technique.
What's Going to Happen Next.
The Network of Networks is finally here.
Does Might Make Right?
The uncomfortable truth about power
A perfect action flick set in Kowloon Walled City, a brilliant literary debut, and more
Roundup 02/18/2025
Reacting to Matt Yglesias's Confession that A.I. Progress Is Giving Him Writerâs Block
Mattâs subhead: âItâs hard to write good articles when you have no idea if everything is about to changeâ. In short, Matt has half-drunk the AI-psychoactive koolaid. My view: Matt should talk to...
Vintage Art House Movie Posters by Peter Strausfeld
The excellent Poster House museum in NYC currently has an exhibition up of posters by Peter Strausfeld. Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during Wor
Why Europe doesnât have a Tesla
Restrictive labor laws are making Europe's superstars fall far behind.
Random House offered me a deal
Last week, I accepted an offer from Random House to publish my debut story collection: The Payoff includes my self-published novella, âMoney Mattersâ, three other novellas that are original to the col
The Ex-U.S. Trade is Working
Some charts on international stock market outperformance. The post The Ex-U.S. Trade is Working appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
A Rare Great White âGhostâ Caught in the MediterraneanÂ
Itâs good news for a vulnerable species on the decline The post A Rare Great White âGhostâ Caught in the Mediterranean appeared first on Nautilus.
Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?
What might happen if New York City Mayor Mamdani delivers on increasing income and corporate taxes to the next level?
What is happening to writing?
"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
The Left Owes a Lot to Jesse Jackson
As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jacksonâs accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era â or
Fractal Fluency, or Why Our Brains Love Nature's Patterns
Forest baths, snowflakes, and the power of scaling up (and down)
Why African-Americans Loathe âUncle Tomâ
From NPR: MICHEL MARTIN, host: As weâve just said, the apology for slavery from the House of Representatives is just the latest public act in the century-long drama of slavery in the U.S. Fiction has
Another Lesson from the Mockingbird: Institutional Racism in Harper Leeâs To Kill A Mockingbird
From American Journal of Medicine: Harper Leeâs To Kill a Mockingbird 1 is one of the most successful American novels in history. Set in the 1930s, it is the story of a fictional white lawyer, Atticus
Ken Burns: The Art of the American Revolution
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Social Media Noise and Stock Manipulation
What Investors Need to Know
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era ....
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. âAll of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to techn
The AI Apocalypse Cometh?
Podcast with Robert Wright
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