In the 1950s, Foucault sped around Sweden — quite dangerously — in a spectacular Jaguar

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Greg Brown (1969 – 2026) Guitarist for Cake

Rubio’s Silk-Stocking Diplomacy

A plant ‘vaccine’ takes on corn rootworm, a fearsome pest

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

The New Global Order

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

Open Thread

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Alice B. Toklas after Gertrude Stein. “Without Baby, there is no direction to anything — it’s just milling around in the dark”

Love Around the Corner

Scientists spot never-before-seen shock wave around dead star

Understanding ammonia energy’s tradeoffs around the world

Tidal waves of lava may slosh around alien worlds

Spectacular Cosmic Collision Captured in New Hubble Image

‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’

Today in Supreme Court History: February 6, 1858

Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude

“Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity”