A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art
A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art
In 2002, the college essay was declared dead. More than three years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the college essay lives on
In 2002, the college essay was declared dead. More than three years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the college essay lives on
Our dreams are our own — or are they? Meet the researchers behind the new science of TDI: targeted dream incubation
Our dreams are our own — or are they? Meet the researchers behind the new science of TDI: targeted dream incubation
“Six-seven!” and the Nonsensical Gestures of Pop’s Rapid Onset Obsolescence
Wen Gao at The Common Reader: A few months ago, I was babysitting two kids, one eight and the other five years old. We were in the middle of a board game when the numbers six and seven happened to com
Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. "Is...
Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is your country a notorious bad actor in the Middle East? Has your leader deployed the country’s military domestically against civilians who were protest
Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet
As part of his show called Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis, currently on display in LA, Takashi Murakami painted his own version of Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol -
Tuesday links: political pressures
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Algeria and Gaza Parallels
Military dominance is often treated as strategic insurance. Yet history suggests that battlefield superiority can generate domestic political instability when the moral and reputational costs of susta
Watch How Water Bears Can Survive in Martian Dirt
There’s a way for the tiny resilient creatures to thrive even on the red planet The post Watch How Water Bears Can Survive in Martian Dirt appeared first on Nautilus.
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Alex Wilkins in New Scientist: A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a st
Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026)
Today's links Supreme Court saves artists from AI: Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: KKK x D&D; Marti
Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
A recording from Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat's live video
Remember the "scroll lock" key on your...
Remember the “scroll lock” key on your keyboard? What the heck was it for? And why is the same scrolling mechanic showing up in streaming service interfaces?
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire
The most beautiful formula not enough people understand: Grant Sanderson’s Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
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Not Yet ‘Game Over’ In Iran
The post Not Yet ‘Game Over’ In Iran appeared first on NOEMA.
New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
A painting from 1633 called Vision of Zacharias in the Temple has been newly identified by Rijksmuseum researchers as an authentic Rembrandt van Rijn. It had been decades since the painting was examin
When Scientists Are Dinosaurs
At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down The post When Scientists Are Dinosaurs appeared first on Nautilus.
The Crypto Chokehold
Gerald Epstein in the Boston Review: Without Donald Trump, the crypto industry would have met a very different fate. In the years before his second presidential campaign kicked off, crypto markets wer
C19th English novels overrated?
from Tanner Greer
Research links: triggered online
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s edition including a look at...
Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
AI and Inflation
Key Insights for Investors from Recent EU Research
Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?
Per Betteridge’s law of headlines and also the map above, my answer is clearly no. You can try it yourself here…you draw them one at a time and it adds them to the map automagically. I’m going to blam
Kyys Ñurgun’s Battle
A Translation of Alaatyyr Ala Tuïgun, Lines 3967-4076
Studio Tour with Carol Bove
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Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...
Recent advances in science have revolutionized our understanding of the Maya, e.g. there’s evidence that “more people lived in the classic-era Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the pe
A short history of Hypercard
Gregory Wieber offers insight to the events that led up to the innovative software, Hypercard. And also its demise. A fascinating peek I’d love to see extended.
Results of the Literary Reputation Poll!
The survey revealed unexpected fissures between autodidacts and English majors
CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: There Is No U.S. Plan on Iran
Is this the Epstein War, or the Netanyahu War? Dan Drezner thinks it is the Netanyahu War. Dan’s heading: "Maybe, just maybe, the Trump Administration does not know what it is doing in Iran...
The Iran Thing
I owe you my thoughts on this, and I know I’ve been slow in providing them.
AI and the Distribution of Income Between Capital and Labour
AI is working according to plan, further enriching the owner class at the expense of workers.
On The Art Of Carol Bove
Gordon Hughes at Artforum: THERE IS, IT SEEMS TO ME, a right wrong way and a wrong right way to see Carol Bove’s folded steel sculptures. Take, for example, her 2018 Cutting Corners. I know it’s wrong
The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself
Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.
The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.
Tuesday Poem
Dear March-Come in Dear March—Come in— How glad I am— I hoped for you before— Put down your Hat— You must have walked— How out of Breath you are— Dear March, how are you, and the Rest— Did you leave N
Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.
" Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...
“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.”
AI is a bureaucratic technology. So is fighting war.
What happens when AI slop hits targeting systems and civil liberties?
On Gray Literature and Webster’s Timeline History Books
Sally O’Reilly at Cabinet Magazine: I find these publications compelling by their very existence and, for the most part, unreadable. Their content slides off my mind. Gray literature’s high and narrow
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