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
How did trumpet legend Nat Adderley become a white guy playing with a three-handed bassist?
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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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
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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
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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: This is a
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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by Samuel Dunlap In 2007, the neuroscientist Sabrina Tom slid volunteers into an fMRI scanner at UCLA and offered them coin-flip gambles. Win twenty dollars or lose twenty. Win thirty or lose ten. Wil
Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.
by Derek Neal Allopathy and homeopathy are two contrasting theories of medicine. Allo, meaning other, and homo, meaning same, indicate how suffering (pathos) is cured in these two approaches. Modern m
Fugitive Big brown bison walks the white line of a two-lane, black eyes scanning for a sign. Regarding asphalt he wonders what happened to the grass. How did this black ribbon come to bisect my meadow
This story was originally published by Canary Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. Last October, Reasons to be Cheerfu
Daniele Belleri in The Ideas Letter: Late last May, the prime ministers of Europeâs Nordic countries gathered in a former tuberculosis sanatorium hidden among the pine forests of southwestern Finland.
Gavin Evans in Aeon: The Florida peninsula looks like a sore thumb. It juts into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, where the water is getting warmer year on year, prompting fiercer hurricanes that
Kate Mackenzie an Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Eulogies for the rules-based international order have been piling up in 2026. Mark Carneyâs speech at Davos in January was lauded for its open acknowledgment
If you want to befriend time â which is how you come to befriend life â turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and com
"Owning up: to recollect, to regret, to be responsible, ultimately to forgive and love."
Stephen Harding in Literary Hub: By the spring of 1939, the widely acknowledged dean of Anglo-American Modernist poetry, fifty-three-year-old Ezra Pound, had lived in Europe for three decades. After l
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Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse & violence at the hands of its chef/owner, RenĂŠ Redzepi. Punching, screaming, shoving, stabbing, slamming, intimidation, ridicule, blacklisting. What a
"It isnât perfect, not at all. It doesnât need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up."
Alone Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I donât believe Iâm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can ma
by Thomas R. Wells The worldâs richest 1% have more purchasing power, and hence more command over what the economy produces than ordinary people. They can afford a more extravagant lifestyle â at the
by Bonnie McCune Political discussions and debates leave me cold. Thatâs because I abhor conflict, and politics always seem to be accompanied by disagreements, fights, raised voices, and anger. When I
by Philip Graham In the first part of our conversation at 3 Quarks Daily, the writer Kipling Knox and I spoke of the parallels of our recent books: dappled with ghosts, in similar Midwestern landscape
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This essay is adapted from Traversal. On April 5, 1815, as Napoleon is assembling his troops for the Battle of Waterloo, where he would meet his final defeat, the lieutenant-governor of Java leaps to
A wonder-smitten reminder âthat for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.â
Shulamith Firestoneâs fundamental battle is with the grip which normalcy and conformity have on every human life
AntĂłnio Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist who captured his generationâs disillusionment with the war, is dead. He was 83
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