Understanding the inner thoughts of AI: Hannah Fry speaks to Neel Nanda

Some Thoughts on Law Professor Richard Epstein's Ideas for Fixing FIFA's Flawed Rulebook

How to Spot and How to Stop a Liar: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

Arthur Bahr named head of MIT’s Literature Section

MAHA or Institutionalization?

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

As the Arctic warms, gray whale boom turns into a bust

In “The Face,” Fay Bound-Alberti examines our relationship to our most public features

Jail Should Not Be the Only Option for Kids in Mental-Health Crisis

Banning Parents from Possessing Guns Because Their Child Has Described Thoughts of "Harming Herself Using a Rope" Violated Second Amendment

Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind speaks about AI for Scientific Discovery

A baseball-sized sensor can detect chemical threats

Open Thread

Open Thread

The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.

MIT-led project opens first climate shelter in Bangladesh

Open Thread

"A Black Robe Is No Guarantee of Gray Matter"