Did an AI or a human write that paper? New detector decides by examining its ideas

Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human

James Madison on Human Nature

Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem

Lea Ypi’s Genre-Blending Histories

Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain

SpaceX Found a Way Around the FCC

The Political Constitution at War

Taller Than She Expected: On the Violence of Unwanted Repair

Why Drug Trafficking Is Now Almost a Human Right in Canada

Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match

Are single-mindedness and arrogance what’s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy

Architect of polar neutrino detector wins physics Nobel

Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains

Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain

Open Thread

RFK Jr. Wants More FDA Oversight of Food Ingredients. It Could End Up Costing $210 Million.