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Cass Sunstein: âTo attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isnât a force in history. Itâs not Voldemortâ
What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to âculture,â a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all
Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same
I had somehow missed (or forgotten) that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing an adaptation of The Magicianâs Nephew, one of The Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. Filming has wrapped and itâs
These beautifully composed books usher you into the life and times of influential scientists The post The Nautilus Reading List of Science Biographies appeared first on Nautilus.
The day of environmental action and protest has grown and evolved over the past 56 years The post Earth Day Started with an Oil Spill appeared first on Nautilus.
A group of âunauthorized usersâ have accessed Anthropicâs Mythos AI model, which the company recently said they couldnât widely release because it was too dangerous. Whoopsie doodle! Maybe donât use g
Jeroen van Baar at An Educated Guess: In 1994, a team of Canadian psychologists wondered why people with anxiety worry so much. In the words of Baz Luhrmann, âworrying is as effective as trying to sol
Filmmaker Noah Hawley was invited to Amazon founder Jeff Bezosâs Campfire retreat in 2018. Reflecting on the experience recently for The Atlantic, Hawley writes that todayâs super-rich have stopped âp
Michigan is on the frontlines of the American Democratic Party's internal battles over Israel with a competitive U.S. Senate primary and lingering fallout from the suppression of Pro-Palestine campus
Wow, this interview! âIâve never had an interview quite like this one with Charlize Theron.â
Research from Anthropic: Large language modelsâ ever-accelerating rate of improvement raises two particularly important questions for alignment research. One is how alignment can keep up. Frontier AI
I just went to my momâs funeral, and so was reminded about my family, and of the question of what exactly one wants to do with oneâs life.
Learning how to listen...
A recording from Anne Applebaum and Preet Bharara's live video
âIn a new book called âIsrael: What Went Wrong?,â [Israeli professor of Holocaust & genocide studies] Omer Bartov argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in
The closer to home, the better The post The Most Soothing Kinds of Nature Sounds appeared first on Nautilus.
Don't believe Bill Murray
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a sleazy American political advocacy organisation that exists primarily to collect donations from morally overexcited gullible people.
Understanding When Price Multiples Help Predict Stock Returns
Cory Booker went to Michigan to yell at the people who sat out 2024. The voters he was yelling at have been telling pollsters what would actually bring them back.
Lessons from a 1969 documentary on Nazi-occupied France on how fascism takes root. âA former undercover British agent recalls that working-class French were eager to help him and to shelter him. Those
Medical illustrators can rest easy
But we knew that
On today's show we discuss why the stock market feels like it makes no sense, stocks are the smart money, the speed of market moves, an epic bull market run, a new inflation regime, Hyperliquid, what
Abdelrahman ElGendy at the Los Angeles Review of Books: Ahmed Douma has always known the time would come. He knew that the prison cell would take him back. Over the past three years, while Ahmed and I
The hydra, the Oankali, and those that persist
Instead shame people for lying
Today's links It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app: It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a sex machine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PKD named na
A new short story from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, etc.) called Constellations about a mission that has crash-landed on a distant planet.
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots. The post A Powerful New âQR Codeâ Untangles Mathâs Knot
Since World War I, our society has been convinced that civilization is on the brink of technological apocalypse. The specific technology changes, but the underlying belief has stayed the same. The Lif
Regurgitating â understanding
goodhart's law, slight return
We thought this day would never come. But we kept the faith and now we can begin to reap the rewards: there is actually a trailer for the Coyote vs. ACME movie and the movie itself is actually coming
How about an ice cream cone with a dirt chaser? The post Why These Monkeys Are Eating Fistfuls of Dirt appeared first on Nautilus.
Well, here it is at last: the new Boards of Canada album is called Inferno and it will be released on May 28. Pre-order or pre-save the album.
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 22 April 2026: Global food âcatastropheâ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy
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