How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Perceptions

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

MAHA or Institutionalization?

Arthur Bahr named head of MIT’s Literature Section

How to Build a Pro-AI Majority

As the Arctic warms, gray whale boom turns into a bust

What Makes Humans Stupid

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

Conway’s Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Open Thread

Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?  

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

MIT-led project opens first climate shelter in Bangladesh