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Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books, or purge âcommiesâ? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university
Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis is not better than aromatherapy or worse than neurology, itâs simply something for people who find it intriguing"
Shut out of plum positions because of his political sins, Malcolm Cowley became a triple-threat hired gun: reporting, reviewing, editing
This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard. Includes military activity, climate anomalies, live webcam feeds in warzones, internet outages, active fires, and e
AK Blakemore in The Guardian: When I teach creative writing, I often find myself insisting upon the essential importance of fun: that while the process of writing can and should be challenging, thereâ
Yes, letâs retire the restaurant monologue. âThe urge to direct diners through every bite of a meal runs counter to what I love about dining out, one of just a few cornerstones of American life that h
Today's links Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bill Cosby v Waxy; Rodney King, 20 years on; Peter
This polyextremophile bacterium could survive an interplanetary trip The post Watch How Planet-Hopping Microbes Can Survive Asteroid Strikes appeared first on Nautilus.
Polling data, religiosity surveys, and demographics raise questions about the Western narrative that Iranians seek regime change
From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures from the Trump regimeâs political appointees. âUse this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team
Vivian Wang in the New York Times: People in China are among the most excited in the world about A.I., according to a KPMG survey of 47 countries last year. While 69 percent of people in China said th
The administrationâs rush to secure the components for the military could benefit renewable energy â someday.
The UKâs greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in... The post Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Some thoughts on how to create an investment plan for an unknown future. The post Preparing Without Predicting appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
âThe problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designedâ
After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans
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Less than one third of the topics I wanted to, and all at much less depth than they deserve. But ars longa, vita brevisâŚ
Six years of AI and the world got stupider
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
The European Commission has put forward a plan to boost production of EU-made, low-carbon steel,... The post Q&A: What the EUâs new industry and âMade in Europeâ rules mean for climate action appeared
Matthew Bunn in The Conversation: For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the largest nuclear forces on Earth. The New START treaty expired on
"No time like the present", Middle East Pacification, Eliminating a Regional Challenger, Israel's Immense Influence Over US Foreign Policy, Iran as Venezuela Redux, etc.
Welcome to Carbon Briefâs China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 5 March 2026: New five-year climate goals revealed at âtwo session
Our junk food diets have formed us into willing consumers of AI slop
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).
In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time
Or anyone else's either
While regular readers might reasonably remain in some doubt as to who is ârealâ among The Hinternetâs authors, only those without much in the way of an occipital lobe could ever take âSam Jenningsâ fo
Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth: âShock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem Iâd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.â
Going off the Gold Standard but for Information
Periodically, I think, âI should write a childrenâs book!
Companies tamp down on wage increases thanks to double-digit inflation in employee health insurance, hurting real household incomes.
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âThe entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent way, and the oscillations are formed by sound waves trapped inside the Sun that make it resonate just like a musical instrument.â
The post AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World appeared first on NOEMA.
Nina Allan in The Guardian: In Will Selfâs 1991 debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, an art therapist named Misha Gurney finds himself involuntarily sectioned in the psychiatric hospital
Adam Schiavi in Undark: Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for a programming code library called Matplotlib, recently described a surreal encounter with an autonomous AI agent â a digital assista
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