Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.

The taming of Black thought

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

In search of the northern cassowary

The Newcomer

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Higher Morning Stress Hormone Levels

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

Companies’ Reporting on Race and Sex Could Come to an End

AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” That's why its output is, put simply, slop 

Record of Human Migration Hiding in the DNA of a Musky Rodent

A New Tool for Combating Human Trafficking

Earth’s core may be far cooler than scientists thought

The Inhumanly Human: Where Claude and Aristotle Meet

The Secret Effort to Prevent the Revolution

No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

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