How Cacti Defy Darwin

Adults With ADHD Experience Sleep-Like Brain Waves While Awake

The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.

Amitava Kumar’s Shout-out to the poet Mikko Harvey

"University of Regina Prof '… Was Not a Pretendian,' Says Judge" in Defamation Case Brought by the Professor

Will AGI Really Be the “Last Invention”?

Antisemitism’s Afterlives

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

I challenged ChatGPT to a writing competition. Could it actually replace me?

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How Charles Darwin Inherited His World-shifting Ideas on Evolution

Earthworms Defy Architectural Logic

Here’s How Snakes Defy Gravity to Stand Up

Open Thread

Oh The Places You’ll Go

A 'Mansion Tax' in Los Angeles Is Worsening the City's Housing Crisis

The Gulf’s Tough Choices

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

Washington State Just Passed a 9.9% Income Tax on Those Making $1 Million

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job