Britain’s Next Leader Has Emerged

Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged

Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Big Breakthrough

Was Brexit Inevitable?

Trauma creep

Open Thread

Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

Neanderthal 1

Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy

Open Thread

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

What Next for Global Trade?

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point

Open Thread

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?