Jason Arday and Academia’s Self-Seeking Pursuit of Virtue

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The Extractive Trap Has a Green Exit

America Invented Elevators. Now We Suck at Building Them.

In Post-Soviet Georgia, a Fledgling Libertarian Movement Faces an Increasingly Authoritarian State

New Observatory Captures More Than Half a Million Galaxies in a Single Image

Will AI Replace Wine Criticism?

The Color Recession May Be Permanent

No Pseudonymity for Autistic Ex-Judge-Candidate, Alleging Failure to Accommodate Disability in Bar Investigation

The 'Affordability' Agenda That Taxes Your Dinner

The Virtue of Being Simple

Greg Abbott Once Called Texas the 'Epicenter' of AI. Now He's Freezing Data Center Construction.

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Open Thread

Neanderthal growth gene turns modern humans into muscle heads

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

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No Religious Exemption from Forum Selection Clause in Employment Agreement

Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices