Do Transplanted Hearts Assume the Age of Their New Host?

These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes

Old hearts age backwards

AI doomers and apocalyptic futurists are weird. Also, their prophecies risk pernicious downsides. That doesn't mean they're wrong

Data Centers and Their Discontents

Why is Ringo Starr still performing at 86? Because he can

Famed Dancer’s Diary Offers Glimpse into Psychosis

A Dispatch from the Trenches of Algorithmic Living

Open Thread

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional

Loneliness and Social Isolation Can Rob Men of Six Disease-Free Years of Their Lives

How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father

For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift

We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster – and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

Exit Party – alternate visions of post-crisis America

Open Thread