The Weirdness Of Dinosaurs

Lessons From Singapore: The Virtues Of Vice

US Escalation Is the Most Likely Scenario in Iran

Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions

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Second Amendment Roundup: The Citizenship Clause Implicates the Second Amendment.

How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise

Today in Supreme Court History: March 28, 1955

Open Thread

Scott Aaronson reviews the movie “The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist”

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

When Scientists Are Dinosaurs 

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak

The Solution to AI Cheating Is Simple: More In-Class Testing

Virginia's Impending 'Assault Firearm' Ban Is Logically and Constitutionally Dubious

Etzel Cardeña – Theories of Consciousness

John Berger and Susan Sontag in Conversation

Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Defense Production Act

AI systems in particle detectors now shape what physicists study