California’s Climate Offsets Go Up in Smoke

Single wildfire smoke exposure causes lasting harm, monkey study suggests

Post-Liberal Europe?

Loss of Bone Mineral Density Linked to Cognitive Decline

The Middle Powers Are Now the “Free World”

Might Makes Right Will End Pax Americana

Why it’s So Hard to Measure the Depth of the Ocean

A Human Bone Marrow-On-a-Chip Unveils Long-Lived Plasma Cell Behavior

Lord I miss the paper plane

Toadstools and toxins

Why China Will Rule AI

Can Adaptation Accelerate Climate Action?

A Workable Social Contract for the Climate Transition

Saffron for joy, ostrich liver for melancholy: medieval mental health was absurd. Yet some aspects seem strangely modern

“The precarity of art in the 21st century has led Gen Z to forsake subcultural credibility for an instrumentalized careerism”

The split between Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye led to no shortage of bad blood. But were their theories of literary inheritance that far apart?

The “Most Complete” Mastodon Tooth Ever Found

Open Thread

Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Rising wealth inequality is a problem