The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

Bland new world

Why the World Does Not Exist

AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics

Terence Tao explains 6 essential concepts of math

In autism advisory committee’s funding plan, critics see a veiled antivaccine focus

The historical origins and geographic scope of the Trump regime’s deportation agenda

“They’re Dropping Planes on Us”

Today in Supreme Court History: September 1, 1823

The Kitchen of the Realm: Even the Commoners Ate Well in Ancient Osaka

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

Archaeologists Just Found a Fascinating Ancient Statue—Used as a Paving Stone in a Roman Road

Israeli-American Emory Professor's Civil Rights Conspiracy Claim Against CAIR Georgia and Emory Student Can Go Forward (in Part)

What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains

NASA abandons orbit-boosting rescue mission for space observatory

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"

Open Thread

Trump Once Promised International Students Green Cards. Now The Government Might Charge Them $100,000 To Work.