How architects turned a hulking brick box into MIT’s newest academic hub

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Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, an expert in archaeometallurgy, dies at 37

Magic mushroom compound may prevent chemotherapy pain

Strikes Without End

Isaac Hayes, Stax Records and Otis Redding’s Big Break

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Why the Right Is Embracing State Power

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Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police

Why the Recent Total Eclipse Looked Unusual

How MIT Sandbox has turned student ideas into $8.7 billion in global impact

Open Thread

AI Addicts Won’t Make Better Workers

Your Ability to Cope with Stress Changes with the Seasons and Your Own Biological Clocks

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

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Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

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‘Robot Olympics’ reveal humanoids’ rapid progress — and flaws