Is a European Single Market for Energy Such a Good Idea?

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables

How data centers can better manage energy use

Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

Intelligence Without Brains: A Radical New Idea

Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art — the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple 

Trump’s Iran War: The Midwife To A Renewable Energy Future

Brickbat: No Good Deed

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Mamdani’s Selective Socialism

Listening for the echoes of black holes

Why Argentina’s AI corporations are (probably) a good idea

Open Thread

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

Open Thread

Open Thread

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

Trump's Sabotage?