If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT

Books and screens

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Open Thread

Iran Is Trying To Silence Dissent. Western Media Are Breaking Through Anyway.

Global Cooperation in a Time of Geopolitical Disruption

MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Mamdani Discovers Common Sense on Homeless Sweeps

For leftists, philanthropy is often simply an expression of plutocratic power. How then to make sense of the surprisingly radical Garland Fund?

Is a Strictly Enforced Fishing Ban Saving the Yangtze?

“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

OpenAI Would Like You to Share Your Health Data with Its ChatGPT

“ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up.”

Portrait of an American: Frederick Douglass on “Pictures and Progress”

Today in Supreme Court History: December 25, 2009

Give Ukraine Back Its Future

Dancing with DEI

The riddle of experience vs. memory

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia

The Year of the Starter Home