The World’s Perilous Ebola Complacency

Cloudy With a Chance of Incineration: Predicting Weather on Distant Worlds

Serbia just elected the world’s brainiest parliament

Recent AI Progress Wasn’t Overhyped: Almost Everyone Underestimated It.

Drunk or sober, but especially drunk, Edgar Allan Poe acted against his own interests. He turned the mystery of why into art 

Law Banning Employer Requirements That Employees Listen to Employer's Religious or Political Speech Likely Violates Employer's First Amendment Rights

Even "Trumpy Judges" and "Woke Judges" Might Know More Law Than You Do

Trump's Latest Attempt To Salvage the Midterms: Bribe and Extort the Voters

New system gives users more control over their online experience

Can Democracy Survive the Next Financial Crash?

The Surprisingly Long Roots of Romantasy

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking

Poem by Jim Culleny

What can we learn from the 1768 painting “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump”?

America Is Spending Billions To Fight the War on Terror in Africa. The Terrorists Are Winning.

Abdul El-Sayed Would Freeze the Bill of Rights in the 18th Century

Iowa Voters Don't Want Police or Flock Tracking Their Cars. Politicians Are Still Catching Up.

Substack founder Chris Best speaks with legendary music producer Rick Rubin about AI

Netanyahu Goes Into Full Panic Mode

Today in Supreme Court History: October 26, 1774

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated