What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

In 2013 Mary Gaitskill told students to “Go home and look between your legs and tell me if that is a social construct.” All hell broke loose

Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent

Faster Permits—Or Your Money Back? It Worked in Pennsylvania.

Trump’s Unaffordable Midterm Stimulus

Open Thread

Catspeak

Why Do Decent Working-Class People Do Indecent Things?

Incompleteness and Its Discontents

By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History

Who Can Lead India Toward Sustainable Development?

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Blame Your Parents for Your Extreme Aversion to Snakes

How Not to Waste Your Life

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Your Boss Could Monitor Your Heart Rate With Spy Tech

Male Neanderthals and human females likely interbred more often than the other way around

A biological conundrum: Why didn’t intelligent life appear on the earth sooner?

Stevie Wonder’s Rule for AI at CES 2026—‘Make Life Better for the Living’

A brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

Your Muscles Retain Memories of Strength and Weakness