Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?
Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?
The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakesâ tails and the kookaburraâs cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives
The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakesâ tails and the kookaburraâs cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives
"Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems
"Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems
Water World
Water World, created by SeĂĄn Doran from imagery captured by a NASA/NOAA weather satellite, is a gorgeous, swirling, painterly portrait of the Earthâs dynamic atmosphere. Doran calls it âa meditative s
LLMs and the Library Card Fallacy
the LLM tutor story is the Khan Academy story is the MOOCs story
After Two Centuries of Mystery, This Is How Tobacco Plants Make Nicotine
Understanding the pathway could lead to better drugs and vaccines The post After Two Centuries of Mystery, This Is How Tobacco Plants Make Nicotine appeared first on Nautilus.
How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment
âLet us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,â Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and sep
VibeCoding LLMs Lying About Hardware & Their Own Processes: Laugh of the Day
Vibecoding hallucinations with a very confused anthropic/claude/opus trying to describe what is going on on my MacStudio. Inside an AI that can write code, misread top, and hallucinate about...
Creating The Perfect Portfolio
Does it make sense for someone in their 20s to hold a 60/40 portfolio? The post Creating The Perfect Portfolio appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . "To win on...
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy. âTo win on Jeopardy, you donât need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.â As an proficient player of Yell Answers At The TV Jeopar
Are Humanoid Robots the End of Human Work?
Hereâs what the people making the robots think The post Are Humanoid Robots the End of Human Work? appeared first on Nautilus.
Anthropicâs co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the popeâs AI encyclical
Alina Maria Stan at The Next Web: Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vaticanâs Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be C
Paul Brown's iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...
Paul Brownâs iPod. This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of âthe music on the iPod my dad had in 2018 before he diedâ. Click wheel works and everything.
Thursday links: a bumpy ride
When One Dead Whale Becomes a Decades-Long Buffet
An ocean floor feast thatâs bottomless The post When One Dead Whale Becomes a Decades-Long Buffet appeared first on Nautilus.
What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?
One of the questions on The Colbert Questionert that Stephen Colbert would administer to his celebrity guests was âWhat number am I thinking of?â As you can see from this compilation, his answer was o
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
From OpenAI: For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place nn points in the plane, how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 11 apart? This is the
Checking the math behind OpenAI and Anthropicâs latest headlines
Always read the fine print
The German political establishment is losing its mind as the AfD cements its dominance over the electorate
Last Saturday, INSA published a nationwide poll that caused immense disquiet among the defenders of Our Democracy because it showed Alternative fĂźr Deutschland a whole seven fat points ahead of the ce
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by Paul ErdĹs. âThe proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for ma
Kurt Vonnegut interview from 1996
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Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough
Wow, BBC Earth has posted this three-hour-long video to YouTube of David Attenborough narrating Unbelievable Moments From Nature. Iâve had it on in the background for the last little while as Iâm work
"US is âsimply choosing not to stopâ Ebola...
âUS is âsimply choosing not to stopâ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts.â Just so fucking stupid and maddening and wasteful and dangerous and callous and evil.
The Real Cost of Union Busting Is Much Higher Than You Think
The most militant class warriors in the United States arenât New York City nurses, UPS delivery drivers, or Midwestern autoworkers. Theyâre employers who are willing to spend big to maintain their dic
Software, Moats, and Value Traps
Software stocks have cratered.
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying. âEveryone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were ly
Boarding Chinaâs Last Bus
Zilan Qian at Asterisk: Americans â left, right, and everywhere in between â seem to be afraid of AI. They fear data centers speeding up climate change, disinformation and deepfakes, AI companionship
AI Discourse is Haunted by Presentism Bias
Concerns about existing AI are overstated, while concerns about future AI are understated
Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer!...
Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer! âFrom June 19 to September 7, no fees apply for: admission for all visitors to all national historic sites, national parks, and national marine c
The $500 Price Increase
Plex sends a message to the self-hosting community with a massive upcharge targeted at the very people who hate monthly fees. For nearly two decades, Plex has served as self-hostingâs great gateway d
Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist se
The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
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Bernieâs Burlington Was an Experiment in Practical Socialism
âI am a democratic socialist,â Dan Chiasson, the fifty-five-year-old author of , told me proudly over Zoom, his âZohran for New York Cityâ cap visible in the frame. Chiasson and I have known each oth
On âProblems of Criticismâ
Harmon Siegel at Artforum: IT WAS 1968, and Barbara Rose was excoriating her Artforum colleagues in the pages of the magazine. Assassinations, riots, and wars were ripping the country apart. Yet someh
How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Speciesâ Past
Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. The post How Ecotype
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
The post To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly appeared first on NOEMA.
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks ....
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks. âApparently, eating a fistful of iguana tranquilizers for breakfast every morning has turned me cold-blooded, and I am no longer appropriately adapted for lif
Iran Is Prepared for a Return to War and Wary of US Talks
Iran is bracing itself for a second round of US and Israeli hostilities following a swirl of bellicose social media posts from Donald Trump. On May 17, the president posted an AI image of himself with
These Odd Birds Flirt by Clapping in the Middle of the Night
Who needs love songs when you can snap your wrists together loudly? The post These Odd Birds Flirt by Clapping in the Middle of the Night appeared first on Nautilus.
The Most Precarious Day in the Universe
On the same day the world descended into war, physicists saw reality itself unraveling The post The Most Precarious Day in the Universe appeared first on Nautilus.
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