On Heroes and Role Models

Enduring passions for medicine, journalism, and triathlons

Don't Legislate Morality: Most Americans Can't Agree on What's Immoral

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read

In Tel Aviv, It Feels Clear That Iran Is Losing the War

You Can Transport Antimatter in a Box Truck?

G. Anthony Grant named a 2025-26 NACDA Athletics Director of the Year

Space Screws Up Sperm’s Ability to Navigate Properly

Today in Supreme Court History: March 27, 1996

Review: A Thorough Account of Socialism's History

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The em dash—sleek, suave, far superior to the measly comma—must not be ceded to the large-language models

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Germany’s Role in a Post-American Europe

New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models

AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers