The Emperor Has No Ludus Magnus

Open Thread

The ‘Broken Veteran’ Excuse

In Defense of Difficult Reading

Comic: It's America's Founding Fake News Terrorist, Samuel Adams

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

The White House UFC Fight Is the Perfect Event for the Present, Not the Past

So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States

Open Thread

Cultural Difference "Cannot Be Accepted as a Reason to Mitigate" Ethiopian-Born Lawyer's Dishonesty-Related Misconduct

Two Potential Upcoming Canadian Secession Referenda and the Broader Issues they Raise

274 Years Ago Today, Benjamin Franklin Flew a Kite

3D-printed devices could streamline the production of drug-delivery microparticles

Open Thread

Another Stabbing in New York City

The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news

In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs

Gods at the Gate of Modernity—Religious Arts in Colonial Calcutta

How the pursuit of mathematical understanding built the tools now poised to replace it

Is It the Phones?

Remembrance in Full