MIT named the nation’s top university by U.S. News for 2026-27

Carter Stubbs named Institute auditor

The Underground Scene

The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations

“Reading is like exercise. You have to go a little bit beyond what you’re comfortable with, a little bit more than you can really do”

No Warrant, No Suspicion, No Problem: Flock and Border Cellphone Searches Excluded From 4th Amendment Rules

What It Means for Global Warming to Exceed 1.5°C

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Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia student snatched by ICE, writes about his Kafkaesque ordeal with a quiet fury

Sunday Poem

This dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomit

Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century

“The precarity of art in the 21st century has led Gen Z to forsake subcultural credibility for an instrumentalized careerism”

The “Most Complete” Mastodon Tooth Ever Found

Open Thread

Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing

Human neurons flourish in mouse brains, offering a new view of neurodevelopmental disorders

Rising wealth inequality is a problem

Fueling a return journey from Mars

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

This Philosopher Thinks It’s Time We Call Out Evil in Our World