The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay

A Roadmap for the Next UN Secretary-General

Finding purpose through research

Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup

A Central European Model for EU Growth

Annie Dillard “was a sort of drill sergeant of human consciousness: determined, always, to force herself, and others, to see”

White House move to seize control of NIH grant decisions upsets senators and scientists

Batteries that safely break down in the GI tract could improve ingestible devices

This dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomit

Might Makes Right Will End Pax Americana

50 Years Ago, NASA Unveiled its First Space Shuttle

Perceptions

Study: Reimbursing Victims of Police Property Damage Would Cost Very Little

Beyond Form—Abstraction at Midcentury

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Gwendoline Riley Breaks Free Of Her Phantoms

AI will transform capitalism – but how?

Animal eye

Selling Alcohol Isn't a Political Function

To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods 

Open Thread