Mud below, sun above

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

Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns

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

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When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

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

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate

Open Thread

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?