Neuroqueering on the lawn

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Is Reading Really All That?

New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operations

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

Why the Recent Total Eclipse Looked Unusual

New Species of Giant Armadillo Has Convoluted History

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

The Love of Art Heists

Georgia Cop Claimed Petting Zoo Donkey Was Charging at His Team When He Shot It

The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Bite Was Unlike Any Other Predatory Mammal’s

Choice Words

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

Cops in Polk County, Georgia, Fatally Shoot Petting Zoo Donkey

The Puppet and the Chatbot: Unease in the age of AI

Not-Writing

“As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life

What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains

The historical origins and geographic scope of the Trump regime’s deportation agenda

“They’re Dropping Planes on Us”

Open Thread