Looking for Signs of Intelligence in Chatbots

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

The Dollar’s Dominance

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

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Second Amendment Roundup: Arms and Accoutrements

Open Thread

What Next for Global Trade?

Justice Barrett v. Justice Jackson On Textualism

Reify This

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Compression is Intelligence

Myriam Heiman named director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

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Open Thread

Hidden Fungal Networks Could Stretch from the Earth to the Sun a Billion Times Over

Another Stabbing in New York City

Generational Debts of Gratitude

Scott Pelley Goes Off on Bari Weiss: 'CBS News Is on Fire'

Today in Supreme Court History: June 11, 1993

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