Who Can't Afford Food?

“We can’t ship goods without functioning ports”

Europe Cannot Afford Another Lost Year

What is this rock?

Neanderthal 1

All the Sad Hawks

The Fed Has Been Honest and Stupid

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

Higher-Education Reform Is Under Threat at UNC Chapel Hill

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

Why Robots Still Can’t Do Science

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

Open Thread

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

The Middle East’s New Normal

Canada’s Great Recalibration

Gifted and Talented Programs Need Competition, Not Abolition