A little-known flu virus is sickening cattle around the world. Are humans next?

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

U.S. To Spend $24.4 Trillion More Than It Has Over the Next Decade, Report Warns

The World Is Becoming Too Loud for Birds

The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

The Freak World of Nick Fuentes

The Olympics Will Never Achieve World Peace If It Keeps Clamping Down on Free Speech

The Freak World of Nicholas J. Fuentes

Books and screens

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

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Understanding ammonia energy’s tradeoffs around the world

Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus

The Trump Administration Owns Responsibility for Whatever Comes Next in Venezuela

The Postliberal Mind Virus

‘We’re humans — brilliant and a mess’: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on trust and optimism

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

If Birds Ran the World

Before 1970, humans were rational. After 1970, irrational. What changed? The nature of psychology experiments

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

New World Order or Bust