Of Monsters and AI

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

A Conversation with Debin Ma on East Asian History

Trump, Iran’s Newest Hostage

The Surprising Heart of the Data-Center Boom

Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

Open Thread

Sunday Poem

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

No Shirt, No Shrewd, No Parking

EPA sidesteps science in repeal of U.S. greenhouse gas rules

Tuesday Poem

Annotating President Trump's Press Conference About The Tariffs Ruling

You Can Meditate in a Coffin in Japan. They’ll Even Give You a Cute One

Students for a Democratic Society Chapter, Expelled from Univ. of South Florida for Rule Violations, Loses First Amendment Challenge to USF Policies

Schmidt Sciences Announces Plan for Lazuli, a Private Space Telescope

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem

Bridging space research and policy

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing: Be Aware of the Audience