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The Anniversary I Wish I Didn’t Share With My Husband

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OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’

At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as “the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power"

The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?

The Feds Are Spying on Your Bank Account

Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare 

How Not to Waste Your Wildness

Earlier this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she's taught for a decade. This time she lost her job

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

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Traditional Schools Are Losing Their Grip on K-12 Education

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Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate neuroscientist, on How Your Brain Knows Where You Are

The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism

Will you be wearing an exoskeleton in ten years? The tech that could change how we move

3 Questions: The essential role of international engagement

A Limited Supreme Court Win for Trump on Mail-In Ballots

Hoover Daily Report | September 3, 2026