Beauty Is Everywhere. But What Is It For?

Beauty Is Everywhere. But What Is It For?

‘Forever chemicals’ are everywhere. Can new technologies get rid of them for good?

Fields of lilies, fractal landscapes, idioms, DNA, Renoir’s orange, human anatomy: Why is the world full of so much beauty?

This Week’s Briefing Moves to Thursday, Live From London

What a US-China AI Safety Channel Needs

The Authoritarian Logic of Selective Privacy

Cloudy With a Chance of Incineration: Predicting Weather on Distant Worlds

In D.C.'s Delegate Race, 2 Candidates Agree: No Federal Income Tax for District Residents

How Wolford v. Lopez Refines Second Amendment Doctrine

The Quest for Wisdom in Turbulent Times

The Occasional Left-Right Sotomayor-Gorsuch Alliance on Liberty-Related Cert. Opinions

Why States Should Ban Kratom

Why Your Boss Might Live Longer Than You

From 1215 to 2026

When Texas Bat “Cities” Look Like Thunderstorms

Kennedy to select MAHA-aligned researcher to head mental health institute, overruling NIH director

Pamela Colloff on America's Biggest Jailhouse Snitch, Wrongful Convictions, and Criminal Justice

“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”

Mere Anarchy

Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84