Kamala Harris has Liz Cheney Syndrome
Centrists think Harris is a leftist, and leftists think sheâs a centrist. But sheâs not the only candidate with this sort of problem.
The Parasite That Chemically Castrates Its Moth Host
⌠after coopting viruses long ago to do its dirty work The post The Parasite That Chemically Castrates Its Moth Host appeared first on Nautilus.
Review of âRebel English Academyâ by Mohammed Hanif â a sure-fire Booker contender
Yagnishsing Dawoor in The Guardian: Mohammed Hanifâs novels address the more troubling aspects of Pakistani history and politics with unhinged, near-treasonous irreverence. His 2008 Booker-longlisted
My Favorite Music for Meditation
Ten hours of trance-inducing music
Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"
The Enlightenment and modernity have, Brink Lindsey argues, led to mass society and mass affluence. But their overrun has also created a world where individuals are buffeted by strange alien and...
Coffee Break: Trumpâs Stochastic Election Attacks, AIPAC Misfire
In 2026, U.S. politics is definied by two trends: Democrats surging in special elections and Trump attacking the very idea of elections.
Weekly Top Picks #113
As bad as the Industrial Revolution / Nature: AGI is here / Moltbook was fake (of course) / Don't obsess over what AI can or can't do: find your authentic self
Living, Breathing Cities Pose Challenges for Carbon Monitoring
A new comprehensive review details the challenges and opportunities of carbon monitoring in cities The post Living, Breathing Cities Pose Challenges for Carbon Monitoring appeared first on Nautilus.
Job listing: Associate Editor
Silver Bulletin is hiring, again.
Why clinical trials are inefficient and why it matters
Adam Kroetsch at Policy and Practice: We need clinical trial abundance. When trials are slow and costly, it doesnât just hurt the pharmaceutical industry that pays for the trials â it limits how many
Monday links: a world of impermanence
The NFL Told You Why It Booked Bad Bunny
The league's own executives explained the strategy, on the record, for years. Conservative media pretended it wasn't happening.
CROSSPOST: PHIL H: What Does Corruption Look Like?
Phil H.'s subtitle is: "They'll tell you not to believe what you can see with your own eyes". The post is about China's Tang Dynasty poet Han Hong's "Cold Food Festival" poem.
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."
Scott Aaronson: Is the Brain a Computer?
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Greenland, sine ira et studio
An unstudied impression: Donald Trump is like a shark, in that he must always swim forward or risk suffocation.
Igor Stravinsky interview with Robert Craft (1957)
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Twenty-one reactions to Wuthering Heights
from 1847 to 2007
âBreakneck: Chinaâs Quest to Engineer the Futureâ by Dan Wang
Alex Smith at the Asian Review of Books: At the core of Wangâs argument is the assertion that for all their similarities, the two countries often function as âinversionsâ of one another. Labels of cap
The Woman Who Paved the Way for IVF
Miriam Menkin didnât achieve the same fame as her colleague John Rock, but the life-changing procedure wouldnât be possible without her The post The Woman Who Paved the Way for IVF appeared first on N
David Bowie: The Making Of A Modern Saint
Simon Critchley at The Guardian: Beginning with the Anglicanism of St Maryâs Church in Bromley, where Bowie sang in the choir, continuing with his immersion in Tibetan Buddhism in the late 1960s and o
A great cyberpunk urban fantasy novel, a throwback corporate paranoia thriller, and more
Roundup 02/08/26
Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain
Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cellsâ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort. The post Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps Ne
Private Credit Defaults
Systemic or Idiosyncratic?
Adviser links: a primary information channel
Mondays are all about financial adviser-related links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at...
Introducing The Parallax View
The Slovenian School Reading Group starts February 16th
Assistant to the Regional Manager
The problem with utopia
IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy
The âundervaluingâ of nature by businesses is fuelling its decline and putting the global economy... The post IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy appeared first o
Journalism May Be Too Slow To Remain Credible Once Events Are Filtered Through Social Media
Some hand-wringing, as well as blame shifting, as to why social media and independent sites are eating the lunches of mainstream media.
On Luc Bessonâs Dracula
Tyler Dean at Artforum: Coppolaâs adaptation cleaves relatively closely to the plot of Stokerâs novel, but Bessonâs script replicates, almost exactly, only the parts of Coppolaâs film that deviate fro
Regenerative Biologyâs Baby Steps
Saima Sidik in Harvard Magazine: An axolotl is a salamander with a superpower: it can regrow its limbs. When a predator chomps off its leg or it loses an appendage in an accident, a new one will quick
Bad Bunnyâs Super Bowl Halftime Show Was an Exuberant Act of Resistance
Andrew Chow in Time Magazine: When Bad Bunny emerged from a row of towering sugar cane stalks to kick off his Super Bowl halftime show performance, it might have been easy to read the set design as li
Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If youâd like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Google paper suggests that LLMs
Why Hedge Funds Got Better While Private Equity Just Got Bigger
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Democrats Propose Minor Reforms for ICE â and Record Funding
Congressional Democratic leaders are asking ICE to agree to reforms, promising to vote for $11 billion in funding for the agency if it does so. ICE has every reason to concede to the demands â then ig
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The Dying Children Who Suddenly Wake Up
What happens to kids who experience terminal lucidityâand the caregivers who tend to them The post The Dying Children Who Suddenly Wake Up appeared first on Nautilus.
Iran War Watch: US Moves Towards Attack Footing Despite Questionable Odds of Success
On the Iran front, the US is taking steps that do not look like mere posturing. Many experts, including ones in Iran, think war is nigh.
Talk Your Book: The Three Aâs of the U.S. Economy
On today's Talk Your Book, we speak with the Motley Fool's Bill Mann about asset prices, artificial intelligence, affluent consumers and what it all means for the stock market. The post Talk Your Book
The Political Power of Civil Society
Or why protests alone usually don't bring down autocratic regimes
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