Quantum Existentialism

This Record-Breaking Octopus Fossil Isn’t an Octopus After All

AI’s grandiose paradoxes. It will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all, we’re told; it is the most important invention in history or a scam

“People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

Ghost Urbanism: Haunted Concrete and Its Cultural Forms

Hoover Daily Report | April 9, 2026

Brickbat: Cutting Care

Time Brings Order to the Universe

The Mystery of Water on the Moon

The philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’

Chuck Close and Pulp

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The unheralded Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent a letter to Einstein in 1924. It would alter the direction of quantum mechanics

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever

Alan Baratz: Quantum Computing Explained

A string of surprising advances suggests usable quantum computers could be here in a decade

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

Quantum Computing Could Fix AI’s Sustainability Problem

Hot things can freeze faster than cool ones. Now, this paradox has gone quantum

Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology