The Frictionless Years

55 Years Ago, an Apollo 15 Astronaut Dropped a Hammer on the Moon

Towards an AI for Africa

Is Democratic Socialism Going National?

Archives: August/September 2026

These Cameras Save Lives. But Some Want Them Banned

Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

Paul Celan met Martin Heidegger three times, an improbable pairing of Holocaust survivor and Nazi sympathizer

Connecting students with the future of microelectronics

Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map

Why Does Trump Want To Give Millions of Dollars to Right-Wing Europeans?

Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one

With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Open Thread

"We Do Not Know Why Attorney Cole Feels Compelled to Rush out Obviously Flawed Filings, but This Must Stop" + $15K Sanction

What we lost when we lost the video store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm

Why some nitrogen-processing enzymes are more efficient than others

Not What Judges Want to See from Litigants