Kids Are Using NPR Podcast Comments as Secret Group Chats

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

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Against the New Romantics

Europe Still Needs Molecules

The Legal Fight Over Prediction Markets Heats Up

Garlic, the poor man’s spice

Africa’s Common Currency-in-Waiting

The Egyptians, the Hittites, the Assyrians — what caused the collapse of a slew of regional powers around 1200 BC? 

Don’t use the ‘C-word’

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

The War on Gifted Education Is Hurting Poor Kids

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

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

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

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

Exit Party – alternate visions of post-crisis America

Open Thread

A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers