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What makes Great Books great? Their honesty, rigor, seriousness, and sensitivity â all qualities they can lend to their readers
Stage Theories After Steampower: Meek, Marx, Hicks, the InfoâBio Tech-Attention Economy, & much much MOARâŚ
Another terrestrial organisms glows with UV light The post Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian appeared first on Nautilus.
âFor the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026.â
Trump makes the little people suffer, sports edition
A lovely story by Mary H.K. Choi about her husband and wedding. âA green card wedding was the story I was sellingâŚbut it became clear Iâd wanted to get married for all the typical risky reasons most o
New empirical evidence on AIâboosted coding, the apparent absence of a matching surge in valuable products, and the persistent unreliability of large models in realâworld use. BurnâMurdochâs chart...
If late Mayâs âConference of the Leftâ was any indication of what progressive forces have to offer, the Democratic Alliance (or DA, South Africaâs main center-right opposition party) should rest easy.
From the New Yorker, a long and difficult-to-read report by Heidi Blake about how the truly disgusting and evil Tate brothers built a sexual slavery empire.
Sleep-deprived? Spit here. The post Your Saliva Knows How Sleepy You Are appeared first on Nautilus.
Elisa Gabbert at the New York Times: To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with
Welcome to fantasy land
Noahâs subhead for this piece of his post: âBorjas againâ. Failed replications are embarrassing, but they happen. However, they need to be not too common, and they very much need to not always lean th
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate. âThe Roberts Court has replaced the Fifteenth Amendmentâs ban on racial discrimination in voting with a right to engage in racial discrimination
Prenatal Testing and the Special Needs Community
The Democratic party establishment is neither feckless nor helpless when it comes to crushing opponents to its left, like Senate candidate Graham Platner.
The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data about unaccompanied migrant children fighting to remain in the country, according to
From Anthropic: For most of AIâs history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is spe
You will want to have read this framework guide
Nominations are open for this yearâs Tiny Awards. âThe Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of personal web projects that tend to get overlooked.â
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
Interesting question and resulting thread: have you talked with someone who was alive in the 1800s? I think I technically have (a relative in the 80s when I was a kid) but I donât remember the circums
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Silver Bulletin approval ratings for the ongoing conflict.
Sycophants, grifters, and ego-massaging billionaires so strongly define Donald Trumpâs second term, we might easily forget that openly associating with him used to be controversial. Still, looking bac
The folks at Fred Rogers Productions have launched a YouTube channel dedicated to Mister Rogersâ Neighborhood. They plan to post compilations, clips, and full episodes, some of which havenât been seen
Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the stonemasons and building workers of Melbourne downed their tools a
Ultra-processed foods and cigarettes share parent companies and sales tactics The post How Big Tobacco Marketing Made it into Our Lunch Boxes appeared first on Nautilus.
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Matt Lutz at Humean Report: A few hours ago, something of a bomb got dropped on the humanities. A new report was commissioned by the Chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University last
New academic research explains how retail investorsâ own psychology turned the COVID trading boom into a wealth-destroying machine â and what it means for you.
My Students Canât Read. âThere is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural
With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in mathe
We're not on indigenous land
I write this from the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, just north of Rostock.
Yeah, Iâll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile of Steven Spielberg. âSpielberg has always known that his movies are attempts to understand his boyhood and his parents, to try to heal them thr
Charlotte KĂśckert at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Benjamin Gleede situates Gregoryâs concept of simultaneous creation within the Christian tradition and discusses how Gregory goes beyond his pred
Iâm on a long-planned vacation. My brain is (mostly) offline and slowly healing from daily internet poisoning. Away from all the noise, my mind keeps returning to one thought: on many controversies, d
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She wrote the bestseller that made young people fall in love with science The post Lessons in Chemistry, 19th-Century Style appeared first on Nautilus.
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