Free Crack Pipes and Syringes in California

A California-Funded Homeless Shelter Gave Us Meth Pipes

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward

Open Thread

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Fossil skull flattening suggests ancient origins of infant helplessness

Nigel Farage's Reform U.K. Party Reports Green Party Leader's Guillotine Instagram Post to Police

California Dreaming

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

Round and Round We Go

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

Open Thread

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

Open Thread

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors