New chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

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The Hittite Empire

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Open Thread

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Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

Structure of the pre-initiation complex explains CMGE biogenesis

Saving a Tiny Endangered Porpoise One Pixel at a Time

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

Weschler on Hockney

Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work