Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary
Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary
The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?
The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?
Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in an ideal society
Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in an ideal society
Archaic Hominin Species Buried Only Their Women
Ancient proteins recovered from the teeth of Homo naledi fossils tell the tale The post Archaic Hominin Species Buried Only Their Women appeared first on Nautilus.
Durable AI Adoption
Introducing the Durable AI Adoption guide, developed in our Special Interest Group for Business
Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering
My search for a hidden structure to astronomically unlikely occurrences The post Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering appeared first on Nautilus.
âAlthough fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to...
âAlthough fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to inspire. For a few moments or a few days, divisions crumble, replaced by the beauty of kinship.â
"Keep It Baseball Related"
A roomful of Giants beat writers just did the accountability journalism the White House press corps keeps deciding it canât.
Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants
In fact, theyâre some of the same plants used pharmacologically by local Indigenous people The post Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants appeared first on Nautilus.
Thursday links: A.I. pessimism
Morgan Meis on Paul Kleeâs âAngelus Novusâ Painting
Morgan Meis at Close Reading: I havenât even gotten to the embarrassing part as regards my own history with the painting. The thing is, Iâd only ever read about the painting in the works of [Walter] B
Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific...
Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt.
The Link Between the Iran War and the Colombian Elections Goes Through Israel
Israeli meddling in Latin America signals a geopolitical shift: as US power fades in the Middle East, Israel might need an exit strategy.
How Obesity Leads to Memory Loss
Scientists want to know if aging and an expanded waistline affect memory in the same way The post How Obesity Leads to Memory Loss appeared first on Nautilus.
Criterionâs Massive Stanley Kubrick Box Set
Good god, The Complete Kubrick from Criterion. Collected here for the first time are Kubrickâs thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1
The Story Behind Investing in America
For those that would rather listen, hereâs the podcast version⌠Pick up a copy on Amazon or bulk copies on Itasca (there are bulk discounts of 33% and 50% for those ordering 50 or 100 copies). â- When
Heat waves can leave homes dangerously hot â even for young, healthy adults
Zoltan Nagy in The Conversation: Most heat-related deaths occur indoors. When a heat dome sent temperatures soaring in the Pacific Northwest in 2021, 98% of the more than 600 deaths in British Columbi
The Bucks traded Giannis too late
The deal is "ehh, fine" for both Miami and Milwaukee. But Giannis to Boston would have had a seismic effect on the league.
Workers Are Dying in the Heat in India
Haryana, India â On April 26, under a blazing sky in Haryanaâs grain market, Rajendra Paswan, fifty, a migrant laborer from Bihar, collapsed while lifting sacks of grain. Hundreds of laborers watched
UAWâs Convention Doubled Down on the Unionâs New Direction
Delegates to the United Auto Workers (UAW) constitutional convention affirmed last week the aggressive direction the union has taken under President Shawn Fain, who took office in 2023 and immediately
The War on Iran Has Made the Rich Even Richer
The recent war in Iran has triggered a massive global oil shock. Virtually everyone on the planet relies on oil, or on products that require it, which means virtually everyone is now paying more for t
How can we improve forensics as a science?
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Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Audrey Wollen in The Yale Review: You could be forgiven for thinking thingsâart, books, music, clothesâwere irretrievably dire. Almost a decade ago, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that âculture app
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: âAttention is all you need.â This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of todayâs chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and Cha
The Generative AI Fizzleâ˘
Disclaimer: Anything can happen at anytime in the market; I donât give stock picks, and as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Lula Might Just Keep Bolsonaroâs Son Out of Power
On Sunday, June 21, tough-on-crime far-right outsider Abelardo de la Espriella claimed a narrow victory in Colombiaâs election, winning 49.7 percent of the vote against the left-wing IvĂĄn Cepedaâs 48.
We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence
Andrea Miotti at Persuasion: Just this April, Anthropic withheld its Mythos model from wide release due to its unprecedented cyberattack capabilities. General Joshua Rudd, head of the National Securit
Do Economic Moats Beat the Market?
What Buffett gets rightâand what investors miss
Eating Proper Cheese to Save the Land
Supporting good farming through eating good food
The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition
Windows illustrates the growing reach of the surveillance and assertion of centralized software tools over supposedly personal devices.
Toy Story 5 Takes On the Existential Dread of Big Tech
The biggest hit of 2026 so far, has made a whopping internationally, topping the opening weekend numbers of all previous super-popular movies.Toy Story 5Toy Story$160 million And for those of you w
Apple Just Raised Prices. But Deals Are Still Available.
Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neoâs price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-50
China Briefing 25 June 2026: Five-year plans passed | Critical-mineral tensions | Industrial decarbonisation plan
Welcome to Carbon Briefâs China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 25 June 2026: Five-year plans passed | Critical-mineral tensions |
US Subways Build Too Many Cross Passages
I wrote the following piece for IFPâs Transit Abundance Playbook, a collection of 15 ideas to improve transit delivery in the US.
What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?
Lauren Williams tells 'The Joy of Why' how studying a fundamental object in algebraic combinatorics led to a career full of surprises. The post What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Do
2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I donât know whether Roman rulers, b
How AI Will Change Us
The post How AI Will Change Us appeared first on NOEMA.
What's really slowing down the AI buildout
America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it where it's needed.
Epictetus on Love and Affection: A Stoic Paradox
is Stoicism as cold and indifferent as it seems to some?
$150,000 or $1.5 Million or $5 Million
Some thoughts on lump sum investing, diversification, retirement needs and risk. The post $150,000 or $1.5 Million or $5 Million appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
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