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The Detectives Are Sheep (No, That’s Not a Metaphor)
Sarah Lyall in the New York Times: Sometime in the 2000s, the producer Lindsay Doran asked her doctor for a book recommendation. “I’m reading that book everybody’s reading,” the doctor replied. “You k
Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective
Anton Leicht at Threading the Needle: There’s a common mantra in the outskirts of AI policy thought: driven by market pressures and overheated capital markets, AI tokens will soon be abundant—and the
The scientists fighting to stop the antibiotic apocalypse
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You can change your emotions – but it’s a 2‑step process that takes some effort
Christian Waugh at The Conversation: Picture Gigi, having a chat with her boss, when the meeting takes a sharp turn. Gigi’s boss tells her that her work has been lacking recently and that maybe she ne
Did Zohran Mamdani’s New Budget Really Eliminate New York City’s Deficit?
Phillip Wang in Time Magazine: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday unveiled a $124.7 billion budget that he said would close a projected $12 billion deficit over the next two years without d
Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount
Heidi Ledford in Nature: A sweeping analysis of sleep duration and signs of ageing in half a million adults has pinpointed a sweet spot — about six to eight hours of sleep each day — that is linked to
A Conversation With Jeffrey Gibson And Sara Reisman
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Bonnard and Escapism
Julian Bell at nonsite: “The museums are full of uprooted pictures,” Pierre Bonnard once said. The artist was anxious for his pictorial seedlings. They might be thrust out into galleries in which they
Thursday Poem
Shoulders A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow.
David Malouf on D.H. Lawrence
David Malouf (1934 – 2026) at Sydney Review of Books: Each lover of Lawrence’s poems will have his own story of first contact with a new and unique consciousness. Lawrence was the first entirely moder
Failures of Intuition and Geometric Impossibilities
by Jonathan Kujawa Human intuition is a marvelous thing. With scant evidence, we can make assessments, judgments, and predictions that are often surprisingly close to correct. But our intuition can al
This Week’s Photograph
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Jon Greenaway at Current Affairs: There is a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. Look it up—there are literally hundreds of videos showing him breaking out into laughter
How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough
Gina Kolata and Rebecca Robbins at the New York Times: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dire diagnoses in medicine. There are few available treatments, and they do little to help. For decades, exp
Hannah Fry: Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
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What drives health spending in the U.S. compared to other countries?
Emma Wager, Shameek Rakshit, and Cynthia Cox at the website of The Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF: This brief examines the drivers of health spending and differences between the U.S. and its pe
The Most Impressive Man I Ever Met
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AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?
Ewan Callaway in Nature: It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine molluscs called cone snails can. Their stings contain a cocktail of small pr
Wednesday Poem
Blue Heron The startled blue heron erupts out of its long-legged inwardness and flies low to the pond over its shadow. My eye flickers between its great sweep of wind and its blurred mirror motion alm
Nine Theories of Romantic Love and Two Arguments that Love is the Meaning of Life All in Just Under 1,000 words
by Tim Sommers (1) Aristophanes. This is my favorite theory about the origin and nature of romantic love. Humans were once spherical, four-armed, four-legged, two-headed beings that rolled around ever
Justice Unleashed: An Interview With Animal Ethicists Angie Pepper and Richard Healey
by Mike O’Brien Read below or listen here: In this interview, Angie Pepper and Richard Healey discuss their arguments for adopting an abolitionist approach to animal rights, focusing on a recent artic
Catspeak
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of ‘viewpoint diversity,’ according to two peo
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets
Sean Carroll at Preposterous Universe: Economic markets are efficient ways of deciding fair prices, at least in ideal circumstances of perfect competition, information, and choice. But there is more t
Where the Russia-Ukraine war stands today
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Checkmate in Iran
Robert Kagan at The Atlantic: It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ign
A Closer Look: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Christopher Nolan Has Been Dreaming of The Odyssey for More Than 20 Years
Eliana Dockterman in Time Magazine: Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse isn’t a towering colossus looming over the coast of Troy. It’s sinking. Half-submerged, it looks less like a monument than a mistak
How AI is De-Risking Drug Development and Companion Diagnostics
Arora and Moore in The Scientist: The path to bringing a new drug to market is increasingly complex and costly, with development costs now exceeding $2 billion and timelines approaching a decade.1,2 T
Ian Buruma on Berlin during World War II
Bryn Stole at Commonweal: In December 1944, amid the bombs and wartime wreckage of Berlin, acclaimed conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler led the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms and Beethoven
Tuesday Poem
June the Horse Sleep is water. I’m an old man surging upriver on the back of my dream horse that I haven’t seen since I was ten. We’re night riders through cities, forests, fields. I saw Stephanie sta
Poetry After Barbarism
Mae Losasso at n+1: Poetry After Barbarism is a book about the “bar bar bar” of poetic language: not nonsense, exactly, not glossolalia, but the mistranslated, untranslated, and untranslatable. Or as
Some Meanderings on Teaching and AI
by Christopher Hall I did something a little odd this past semester: I had my students write an assignment where I instructed them to use AI as much as they wanted. The assignment was to produce a cov
Water, Fire, Earth, and Air
by Nils Peterson On Water Somewhere I have stowed my astrology reading so I could put my hands upon it when I wanted to see it again. I don’t remember where. So there is something about a water sign [
Perceptions
Michelle Lougee, Cecily Miller. Magazine Beach Tapestry, 2022. ” In 2022, Cecily Miller and Michelle Lougee teamed up to create a new project for Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge. Taking inspiration
On Cartoons, Colors, Ferris Wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, Coming Out, the Internet, and Me
Alan Michael Parker at the Virginia Quarterly Review: In 2021, after forty adult years of study, practice, and teaching, and nine published volumes, I gave up poetry. In 2022, with no formal training,
Carlo Rovelli: There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’
Carlo Rovelli at Noema: The consciousness debate is often formulated in terms used in an influential talk given by a young David Chalmers in Tucson in 1994. Chalmers, a philosopher, distinguished two
Reiner Pope explains how GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served
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Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture
Kiran Kumbhar at Aeon: South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, or ‘India’ in its pre-nation-state meaning, boasts a remarkable diversity in ethnicities, cultures and languages. For more than two centu
Synesthesia
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Photography, Truth, Avedon
Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: One of Tina Brown’s most striking innovations during her tenure at the New Yorker across the first half of the nineties was naming Richard Avedon as staff photograp
The New Strip Club
Callie Hitchcock at the LARB: “Stripping didn’t used to be so touchy-feely, but in the past ten years, it’s become a full-contact sport,” writes Lily Burana in her 2001 memoir Strip City: A Stripper’s
Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and the Art of Self-Reinvention
Sarah Menkedick in TNR: At her English country manor, the writer Rebecca West had two jersey cows: Primrose and Patience. She delighted in the fresh milk they produced, and in canning vegetables, and
Can Tattoos Cause Cancer? Researchers Investigate a Potential Link
Andrea Lius in The Scientist: Metallica’s lead vocalist James Hetfield often lauds Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as one of his biggest inspirations. In 2024, nine years after Kilmister passed away, Hetf
Churchill and the Crown
Piers Brendon at Literary Review: As Clementine Churchill famously remarked, her husband was the last surviving believer in the divine right of kings. Yet his position was not that simple, as Ted Powe
The Grievances of Clarence Thomas
by Ken MacVey Justice Clarence Thomas recently gave a speech at the University of Texas on the Declaration of Independence in anticipation of its 250th anniversary this coming July. In giving his tak
The Device That Keeps Us From Ourselves
by Priya Malhotra Before I launch into any critique of the phone, I should confess that I am not immune to its seductive qualities. I am not writing from a mountain, purified by silence, looking down
Poem by Jim Culleny
Constellations Who will herd the creatures of the constellations across the prairies of the night sky if we disappear like dinosaurs into the mists of archaeology? Who will name them? Who’ll call them
Nostalgic Summons
Raymond Geuss in Sidecar: Adrian Wooldridge’s recent Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism does not just echo The Communist Manifesto in its language, it also mirrors its basic
Power without Ideology
Daniel Bessner in The Ideas Letter: The Donald J. Trump Administration’s war against Iran has renewed talk about the role the United States should play in the world. While in recent American history,
From Sea to Saffron Sea
Samanth Subramanian interviews Neelanjan Sircar in Equator: Let’s start with the big result: West Bengal, where the BJP won 206 out of 294 assembly seats. How significant is that margin? By vote share
María Nieves Rego (1934 – 2026) Tango Dancer And Choreographer
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Seymour Bernstein (1927 – 2026) Pianist and Composer
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J.H. Prynne (1936 – 2026) Poet
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The Wrong Kind of Black Poet
Ernest Jesuyemi in Compact: Poetry is the expression of an eloquent, enlightened, and enlightening subjectivity. Every subjectivity is bedevilled with prejudices, good and bad. Sometimes it happens th
Sunday Poem
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You wi
What Would a Feminist Justice System Look Like?
Rachel Snyder in The New York Times: The avenues that lead women to jail tend to differ from those for men. Criminologists have long understood this. What happens with women is often a layering of tra
Can’t There Be Heaven on Earth?
by Peter Topolewski When a certain earthly ruler, soaked in irony, recently lectured Pope Leo XIV about theology, one of the pope’s many charges, Monsignor Arthur Holquin, came to his defense, noting
A Lament for the Earth (from an Unknown Poet)
by Anton Cebalo In the first century AD, a passionate didactic poem was written in Latin and later bundled with Virgil’s work. However, the style is so drastically different from his that the author’s
Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing
David Weinzweig at X: I’m an appellate court judge. I’ve read thousands of briefs. Here’s what no one told you about persuasion and how to win. Judges check page length before reading a word. • Long b
Photographic memory is a myth
Gabrielle Principe at The Conversation: Most recently, it appeared in the television series “The Pitt,” set in a hospital emergency department. When the digital patient board suddenly went offline, me
The Machinery of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, with Tom McCarthy
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Why do manure spreaders have life cycles?
Dan Bouk at Asterisk: Flipping through the rest of the book, I learned that pumps in water works have an “average life” of 21.3 years compared to only 5.3 years for telephone switchboards. The life of
One Benefit of Aging? You’ll Have Fewer Regrets
Jeffrey Kluger in Time Magazine: Few emotions are as nagging as regret—the mourning and melancholy that comes from fearing you picked the wrong mate, pursued the wrong career, or ended a marriage that
An AI Just Beat Doctors at Diagnosing ER Patients
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: Emergency doctors make high-stakes decisions in fast-paced, often chaotic situations. They have to figure out which patient most urgently needs care, what’s wrong, and w
Friday Poem
The Meaning of the Creative Act True creativity is of spiritual and existential freedom. Creativeness is the overcoming of the world, not an adaptation to the necessities of the world. Creativeness is
Arm-edabad Blues
by Dilip D’Souza Some mornings, I wake up thinking of Ahmedabad. It’s a city I’ve visited a few times; for a few reasons, it’s a city I’ve never really warmed to. But I’ve roamed widely there, often b
The Past is Alive to Those Who Wish to See It
by Mindy Clegg Those who study history as a field of knowledge production (like myself) often differ in their understanding of what it is from the general public. Much of the public views history as e
Maladaptive frugality
Herbert Lui at his own blog: I recently decided to, finally, have my iPhone fixed, only to realize a few hours later that my AppleCare could have covered it. I was in a low mood until my partner sugge
Bees are smarter than we ever imagined
Hannah Nordhaus in National Geographic: Over the past few decades, scientists have been learning more and more about the ways that bees figure things out. They’ve studied how honeybee foragers fan out
Ewin Tang: Youngest Winner of Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
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New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation
Brett Wilkins at Raw Story: “Louisiana is a canary in the coal mine. It is one of the rare places where we’re already clearly seeing climate-motivated depopulation combined with other social and econo
Watch boys go from frightened to feral in an unforgettable ‘Lord of the Flies’
David Bianculli on NPR: Since its publication in 1954, the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies has been one of the most popular books on many high school reading lists. It’s about a group of Briti
Water Molecules Play a Vital Role in Gene Transcription
Shelby Bradford in The Scientist: While scientists have studied the molecular steps involved in gene expression for decades, many questions still remain about this fundamental process. To transcribe g
The Occult: a Special Show & Tell Featuring Dr. Justin Sledge
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Venice Biennale 2026: Denmark’s Maja Malou Lyse
Thomas Patier and Maja Malou Lyse at Artforum: THE PROJECT THAT that I’m bringing to Venice started two years ago, when I randomly got a cold call from the CEO of the world’s biggest sperm bank, Cryos
What Is The Universe Made Of?
Felix Flicker at Aeon Magazine: This remarkable fact raises a tantalising possibility: what if the elementary particles themselves are actually emergent? What if, underlying what we think of as realit
Thursday Poem
To Make a Prairie To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson 1830 –1886 Enjoying the content on 3QD?
Web of Perception Part II – The Strategist
by Thomas Fernandes High-acuity vision and depth perception give Portia a detailed and stable visual world. But vision alone does not explain why Portia is famous. What makes this genus remarkable is
Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific
by Herbert Lui By definition, in order to be prolific, you only need to produce and publish a lot of work. When you set out to produce and publish a lot of creative work, you focus on what’s in your c
This Week’s Photograph
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Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster
Dwight Garner in the New York Times: She was blond and he was dark-haired; they were almost photonegatives. She looked as if she’d been in Bergman films. He was, visually, America’s Camus — wary, heav
How Gödel’s Proof Works
Natalie Wolchover in Quanta: In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid found
Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next
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A Comprehensive Compilation of Theories of Consciousness
Ricardo Forcano with Claude Cowork at Map of Consciousness: Centre of narrative gravity — Daniel Dennett Complementarily to his multiple drafts theory, Daniel Dennett proposed that the self — that cha
Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family
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Confronting America’s Gerontocratic Crisis
Samuel Moyn at Harper’s Magazine: At the core of the gerontocracy’s rise is a historical irony. The modern world—and America above all—once stood for youth, novelty, and energy. And yet the same mod
‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy
Emma Loffhagen in The Guardian: On a stretch of Manchester road known for kebabs, shisha smoke and restless energy, three young men drive towards a night that already feels like it’s slipping out of c
The Longevity Secrets Helping Athletes Blow Past the Limits of Age
Devin Gordon in The New York Times: It was just over three decades ago that the Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs did something remarkable, possibly unmatched in baseball history. For much of his
Wolfgang Koeppen’s Structural Musicality
Joshua Cohen at the Paris Review: Wolfgang Koeppen, the maestro dirigent of the post-Nazi German-language novel, was born in the cold old Prussian port of Greifswald in 1906, a bastard, as they used t
Wednesday Poem
Allegro After a black day, I play Haydn, and feel a little warmth in my hands. The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall. The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence. The sound says that freedom exi
The Hospitality of the Imagination
by Scott Samuelson I’ve noticed something peculiar when I’m at an academic talk. While the paper is being read, I tend to become increasingly skeptical of it. Sometimes I dismiss it because I can’t tr
The Truism No One Hears
by Mike Bendzela I have mourned the fact my entire life that we, as a species, no longer have tails. —Robert Sapolsky It’s too bad the most basic fact of our existence is overlooked, ignored, even den
Catspeak
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Are prediction markets good for anything?
Dan Schwarz at Asterisk: For decades, prediction market optimists — and I count myself among them — have argued that once we build better markets and increase the supply of bettors, accuracy will impr
AI systems are about to start building themselves
Jack Clark at Import AI: I now believe we are living in the time that AI research will be end-to-end automated. If that happens, we will cross a Rubicon into a nearly-impossible-to-forecast future. Mo
The Old Guard Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis
Samuel Moyn in Harper’s Magazine: In Greek myth, Eos falls in love with Tithonus. She is the goddess of the dawn. He is a Trojan prince, yet still a mere mortal. Eos asks Zeus to give her mate the gif
What happens now that AI is good at math?
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Turkey in the age of Erdoğan
Sami Kent in The Guardian: Thankfully, the attack left only black eyes and bloodied faces. It was in Karagümrük, a tough neighbourhood in Istanbul’s old city, once known for mafia types and Turks on t
Habitation as Storytelling Device in Contemporary Films Set in Tokyo
Jennifer Coates at Film Quarterly: A young woman arrives unannounced at the unresponsive door of a Tokyo apartment belonging to an older relative. She sits down outside and waits. Like the girl hersel
Testosterone therapy is trending. Who really needs it, and why?
Mariana Lenharo in Nature: Is testosterone the next miracle drug? That seemed to be the consensus of an expert panel convened by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December. It argued for ma
Our Lady of the Sphere (1968)
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Wilfrid Sheed’s Essays Pulsed With The Energy Of Midcentury America
Kevin Fenton at The American Scholar: The first thing I noticed was the sentences. I’m not sure that, for all my teenage literary enthusiasms, I had ever thought of the sentence as a separate thing, a
Tuesday Poem
On a Day when Stillness Seems Possible and the river is a long white stroke of roiling and continuous surge, and the grass, gone to seed, wavers in the wind, then stills, wavers, then stills, and the
Baby Boom in a Season of Dread
by Steve Szilagyi A few weeks ago, I came into possession of a bound volume of Time magazines from late 1950. As I leafed through it, admiring the cover art, I came to the issue of December 11—which s
Napoleon Can Wait (I)
by TJ Price I’m going to have to change the names in this story, but not to protect the innocent. As the telling would have it, none involved in the following can claim that status, either objectively
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Under the Bridge at Deception Pass, Washington. April 2026. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
The American anxiety about alcohol as pleasure and punishment
Jeannette Cooperman at The Common Reader: Why do I drink? “I like the taste” is a wan excuse, but I do. With my birthday filet mignon and dark chocolate cake, I want a velvety cabernet sauvignon, not
Longevity Science Is Overhyped, But This Research Really Could Change Humanity
Susan Dominus at the New York Times: Why are babies born young? The most natural phenomenon on earth is actually hard to explain — at least on a cellular level. Consider this problem: The components o
One of the NY Times’s “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters”: Jay-Z talks about his craft
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When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled
Daniel Goodman at Plough: The year was 1845. At the time, the country of Denmark was experiencing a cultural renaissance of sorts. This “golden age” swelled with nationalistic fervor, artistic innovat
The Etruscans, The Ancient World’s Greatest Untold Story
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Beyond a Theory of Irresistible Desire
Aaron Bornstein interviews Hanna Pickard at the LARB: I remember you used to give an intentionally provocative talk. One slide listed all the “positive things that drugs do for us,” and then you said
View of Notre Dame
Hal Foster at the Paris Review: As we approach this painting, we have little idea of what it depicts, or whether it depicts anything at all. A washy blue covers the entire surface unevenly, and its sp
Netflix’s Lord of the Flies Is a Must-See Adaptation From the Writer of Adolescence
Judy Berman in Time Magazine: Lord of the Flies looms so large in the canon of English-language allegory that it’s easy to forget the book is only 72 years old. You could also be forgiven for failing
Animal Research Doesn’t Need Better Messaging. It Needs an Exit Strategy
Barbara Stagno in Science: A recent essay in The Scientist by Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) claims that public mistrust of animal research is driven primarily by misunderstanding, not by substa
Psychopaths, Derek Parfit, Global Warming, and Discount Rates
by John Allen Paulos Donald Trump has famously called climate change and global warming a hoax. Ignorant and benighted as he is, he is far from alone. Skepticism about global warming and its causes is
How To Know The Night Sky
by Mary Hrovat I’m tired of hearing about parades of planets. That term is used by astronomers to describe the presence of more than a few planets above the horizon at one time. Although it’s genuinel
Poem by Jim Culleny
The Cardelaveo Abyss Without you would be the Cardelaveo Abyss which is no place I know or which even exists unless by coincidence because I just made it up to convey the vast emptiness I would know w
Hegseth and Patel Iran Press Briefing Cold Open
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The Coup Belt
Gavin Jacobson interviews Rahmane Idrissa in Equator: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? The violence itself isn’t unprecedented by the standards of the Sahel. What is spec
The Grinning Defiance of Chinese Soft Power
Iza Ding in The Ideas Letter: At last year’s climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a phrase I hadn’t thought about for years suddenly reappeared on my radar: “soft power.” The venue was an enormous m
Against Carbon Shock Therapy
Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun in Phenomenal World: At the end of April in Santa Marta, Colombia, two months into the US-Israeli war on Iran, fifty-nine countries attended the first high-level confe
David Malouf (1934 – 2026) Novelist and Poet
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Business Leaders Say Adapting to AI Is Essential to Survival
Erin McMullen in Time Magazine: At a TIME100 Talk on Friday night in Miami, just a few miles from the breakneck vehicular speed on display at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, business leaders gathered
J. Craig Venter (1946 – 2026) Genomics Pioneer
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George Baselitz (1938 – 2026) Neo-Expressionist Artist
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Sunday Poem
The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I had a Lot of Feelings I am taken with the hot animal of my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and have them move as I intend, though my knee, though my shoulder, though som
The Extinction of the Human Species Won’t Matter
by Thomas R. Wells All things come to an end eventually, including the human species. From the perspective of the universe it won’t matter, and so it also shouldn’t matter to us now. The discontinuanc
Seeing Double: Ben Lerner’s “Leaving the Atocha Station”
by Derek Neal I had meant to read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, but in a process I don’t understand, all the e-books were in use at the library; I borrowed his first novel, Leaving the Atocha
Sorry Kiddos, We’re Not In Wonderland Anymore. We’re Not Even In Kansas
by Bonnie McCune Much worse. Evidently, we’re in a country that’s gone mad. Bonkers. Off its rockers. At first, I thought the problem was me. I’ve never felt like I fit in. Even as young as age six, I
I suspect that I was outsourcing my own eating
Adam Dalva at Longreads: Every Sunday evening, I open the fridge, reach into the vegetable crisper, grab a pen, screw in a needle, pinch my stomach, and inject Ozempic. It hurts a bit, but I’ve gotten
Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
Yujia Huang at New Scientist: A simple modification to the cells that carry oxygen around our body seems to stop severe bleeds almost immediately. When applied to serious wounds in the livers of rats,
Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
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Why You Are Every Conscious Being
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A New Non-Aligned Movement?
Nils Gilman at Dissent: Today’s emergent Cold War between the United States and China is also a contest for hearts and minds, but the prize has shifted from the periphery to the middle. A diverse grou