New research points to a troubling relationship between buzzwords and decision-making
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âWhat if we taught students to use AI critically, rather than insisting they ignore it or assume theyâre using it to cheat?â asks college freshman Maximilian Milovidov. âStudents will reach for these
Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I was watching Vampyros Lesbos the other day, which is, shall we say, very much less than a perfect movie. It is not even, by any reasonable standard for what makes a movie
New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a lifetime to master?): Outsmart. âFive rounds, first to 3 wins. In each round, the higher bet wins. You have 100 total points, so bet wisely. Can yo
Cesar A. Hidalgo at his own website: Much of the public conversation about AI focuses on chat interfaces like ChatGPT. But a quieter revolution is happening in command line AI systems such as Claude C
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We may not be at the mercy of asteroids after all
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The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a âlong-lostâ film made in ~1897 by George MĂŠliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et lâAutomate), which âhad not been seen by anyone in
Today's links Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us: A billionaire is a machine for producing policy failures at scale. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence
GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war. âShips in the regionâs waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nucl
Quico Toro at Persuasion: American military planners in the Pentagon have been wargaming scenarios for attacking Iran more or less non-stop since 1979. One major reason president after president stopp
The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season! âDid you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! Then our lock keeper can let the fish through.â
Noubar Afeyan in Time Magazine: Scientists once thought illness was caused by âmiasmas,â foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Eart
Sean Mowbray in Discover: Over the last few years, numerous studies, including those in Nature Communications and Environmental International, have found nanoplastics and microplastics throughout the
Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.
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On the occasion of the release of her latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End, Rebecca Solnit sat down for an interview with David Marchese of the NY Times. Hereâs the video version:
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The NY Times went back through a century of womenâs obituaries âto re-examine them with the benefit of distance â to see what was emphasized, what was minimized, what might have been left unsaidâ. htt
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If unions are serious about reversing their decline, then shorter, smaller, faster first contracts might be what is needed to scale.
First contracts are one of the largest challenges accelerating labo
In Young Man in a Hurry, Gavin Newsom tries to get in front of the critiques he knows are coming. But reading the book, you canât escape what he himself establishes: Newsom is a product of one of the
We donât have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trumpâs war on Iran. We need one immediately.
The US war on Iran is the most unpopular a US war in history. (Fatemeh Bahra