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Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he'd sought to undo
What if the conscious self is an illusion that canât absorb the philosophical heft we assign it?
Francis Bacon was as much a creature of his own era as he was a technocratic prophet of ours. The two designations are inseparable
Because Music Makes Everything Better
This is an animal called the leaf sheep: Itâs a species of slug that is partially solar-powered, like a plant. Leaf sheep are kleptoplastic organisms that steal chloroplasts from algae, store them in
This applies to those who use AI to write and those who donât
is it problematic to commit yourself to one philosopher or movement of philosophy?
Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. Weâre Looking at the Wrong Culprit. âOne drive to the work I do on the Colorado River used more than 20 times the water of everything I did with AI in 11 w
The total solar eclipse in 2024 hushed the Earth by striking awe in the humans in its path The post The Peace That an Eclipse Brings appeared first on Nautilus.
Craig Fehrman at Defector: The dog launched itself into me. Suddenly I was rolling on the ground, kicking and swinging and screaming for help. I could feel the teeth clamped into my calf, the jaws tea
In celebration of my fifth anniversary on Substack
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock. âThis clock displays the current time alphabetically.â Totally derangedâŚI love it.
Israelâs pursuit of territorial expansion is driven by persistent security and ideological pressures, but the conditions required for successful consolidation are increasingly absent. A dense web of c
The little robotic chemist that could The post Mars Curiosity Rover Makes a Big Find on the Red Planet appeared first on Nautilus.
Di Caelers in Nature: I originally came to South Africa from Sweden for a postdoctoral project with the University of Cape Town during the cityâs Day Zero water crisis in 2018. As households faced the
Every Frame a Paintingâs Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou are back with a video essay about pushing the boundaries of genre in Tsui Harkâs 1995 film The Blade. One reason filmmakers like to work in a genre is
Why tax alpha is all the rage in wealth management. The post Tax Alpha appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
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As I watched the teaser trailer for season three of Silo, I discovered that I am very much looking forward to this new season. July 3, 2026. Tags: silo ¡ trailers ¡ TV ¡ video
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Or does Polly just want attention? The post What a Parrot Means When It Says Your Name appeared first on Nautilus.
How long is too long to write back?
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff at Literary Hub: âThe coronavirus panic is dumb,â tweeted Elon Musk in early March 2020, his first public comment on COVID-19. (It was also his first tweet to earn more
The UK government has announced a series of measures to âdouble down on clean powerâ... The post Q&A: How the UK government aims to âbreak link between gas and electricity pricesâ appeared first on Ca
The war in Iran has cut off access to a large share of global helium resources, which are needed for lifesaving medical procedures and semiconductor production. This crisis could have been avoided if
I hack on hardware a whole bunch, at Inanimate and at home. AI is in the cloud. Interaction is in my room and in my hands. The job always begins by wiring together those two ends. So the second thing
Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine: âNearly 90% of people whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were still alive up to six years after receiving the last treatment. The five-year surv
Defending a tautology
During the Reagan administration, John Roberts was known for denouncing judicial overreach. Today he has adopted an assertive use of judicial power, using the Supreme Courtâs shadow docket to fast-tra
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Pope Leo XIV is making it impossible to reconcile MAGA politics with Catholic faith. Within the US Catholic church, Leoâs interventions may decisively undercut those who have argued for a âseamless ga
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The place where humanity's humility was lost is the place it can be regained
âNASAâs Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.â And: âWe think weâre looking at organic matter t
If you have a 401(k) or IRA, thereâs a good chance youâve encountered balanced mutual fundsâperhaps as the default investment option when you first signed up.
Itâs Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And Thatâs Very, Very Bad. âThe word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see t
A technical walkthrough of the new XPO form factor, and the scale-out networking economics that shape the CPO vs XPO decision
AI appears to perform no better than astrology, yet even the author of this critical piece defends its use in medicine.
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