Why is This Octopus Hitching a Ride on a Dolphin?

The Great AI Gamble

Annie Dillard and the Writing Life

On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology

Emerson on How to Trust Yourself

Open Thread

Don’t Scrap Exam-Based Admissions—Expand Them

How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment

In a Culture Obsessed with Staying Young, We Ignore the Many Benefits of Aging

How Social Learning Keeps Orangutans Fed

Committed Parents Can Only Overcome So Much

This dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomit

This Dolphin Steals from Fish for Its Meals

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Annie Dillard “was a sort of drill sergeant of human consciousness: determined, always, to force herself, and others, to see”

Singing Lemurs Borrow a Trick From Opera Singers

THE NEW FACE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE—AND WHY IT’S CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

Today in Supreme Court History: September 19, 1907