This Is What Gives Pigeons Their Excellent Sense of Direction

Thoreau’s Not-So-Rugged Individualism

A Habitat Farmer’s Manifesto

The Cephalopods Are Coming

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members for 2026

No Pseudonymity for Most Challengers of Visa Vetting Policy

Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2026

Words of War

Latin America’s Agricultural Boom Is Faltering

Mamdani’s Vacancy Fig Leaf

MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks

Japan's Smoking Bans Make a Lot More Sense Than America's

Poop Cruises Are No Laughing Matter

Can ecosystems malfunction?

I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

Leslie Fiedler, the wild man of American letters, argued that our literature was less realism than repression

New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

Israel’s Human Wrecking Ball

Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat

Open Thread

This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs