“Hell, Yes, It Was Smuggled” — Stolen gods and the museum down the street

Inchon or Bay of Pigs? The Hormuz Test

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

The Replication Crisis in Medicine

How An Accidental Virus Release Triggered 1977’s “Russian Flu”

When you feel moral disgust, what’s the emotion telling you?

Do Babies Feel Shame?

The Rebirth of History and the Last Man

Ask Jeeves

A Visit to a Gun Store Shouldn't Put You on a Government List

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing

The AI Tipping Point

Fire in the Brain: How Psychosis May Arise When the Body Attacks Itself

Ig Nobel hosts science’s silliest ceremony outside U.S. for first time

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life