Bows, arrows and what will become sine

Firing Government DEI Executive Didn't Violate First Amendment

What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

Today in Supreme Court History: March 13, 1963

Review: Have Aliens Visited Earth? This Documentary Says Yes.

Brickbat: Blocked and Reported

DHS Is 'Upgrading' a Detention Facility Rife With Abuse Claims. It Should Close It Instead.

Sean Carroll on The Multiverse, Misinformation, and Why Experts Still Matter

How should we define mathematical beauty in the AI age?

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Werner Herzog has spent 50 years insisting that lies reveal deeper truths. That argument has become harder to make

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

That books are disappearing along with our capacities for complex and rational thought has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries

How Involuntary Commitment Could Become Indefinite Detention

How some skills become second nature

The six-second hug

Edward Teller Tried to Move Mountains With Nuclear Bombs