Old hearts age backwards

Rhythm and Revolution

Patricio Guzmán (1941 – 2026) Chilean Filmmaker

Catherine Ringer (1957 – 2026) Singer And Artist

The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live

Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

Pressurized experiments could help wind farms generate more power

The Jackal

“Secondary Traumatic Stress” Goes Too Far

White House move to seize control of NIH grant decisions upsets senators and scientists

Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure

We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster – and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature

The phrase ‘fiercely private’ is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn’t one of them

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

Jonathan Franzen used to consider TV the "enemy." Now it looks like an ally: He's working on a script to adapt The Corrections

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

Open Thread

New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared

Today in Supreme Court History: September 25, 1981