Is everything conscious?

Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble

Open Thread

A Left-Wing Politics Based on Calling People Names

Cry to the Angels

A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why?

The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings

The Tragedy of AI Coding

Harder to Stop Than the Cuban Missile Crisis

James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You

Harvard Medical School vs. Weight Loss

Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness

“They Have Been Denied Their Right to Parent and Protect Her”

This Photo of the Martian Dawn Could Be Curiosity’s Most Serene Image Yet

Astonished Daily: A Conversation with Mary Cappello

A Recipe for Stopping AI from Going Rogue

Douglass’s Two Constitutions

J.D. Vance Accidentally Comes Out as a Socialist

Some College Grades Need to Go Up

Is a 600-page history of the British novel a monument to a dying form? If so, it's a joyous one