The Turnout Race

Why is Ringo Starr still performing at 86? Because he can

How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father

Famed Dancer’s Diary Offers Glimpse into Psychosis

A Dispatch from the Trenches of Algorithmic Living

Open Thread

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

Paternity is poetical

Against the New Romantics

Europe Still Needs Molecules

China’s Platform State and the AI Race

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

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

For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift

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

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Exit Party – alternate visions of post-crisis America

Open Thread

A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers

Why is there controversy around OpenAI’s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?