Drinking Water With Meals May Make You Eat More, Not Less

Loitering towards war

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

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The Warrior Life of Ancient Egyptian Princesses

Following the questions where they lead

For Workers on Alaska’s North Slope, You “Sleep When You’re Dead”

A Pipeline Company Seized Their Land and Left Them With a $383,000 Bill. What Will the Supreme Court Say?

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”

Grant Sanderson: Compression is Intelligence Part 2

Open Thread

How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts

Lawyer Shows "Complete Disregard for His Ethical Obligations to Make Accurate Representations to the Court," Magistrate Judge Says

Letting Russia Burn

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921

Open Thread

Open Thread

A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years 

Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat

Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life