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No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Some Dogs Learn New Words Just Like Toddlers Do

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

Today in Supreme Court History: December 25, 2009

Give Ukraine Back Its Future

Dancing with DEI

The riddle of experience vs. memory

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia