May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

How should we define mathematical beauty in the AI age?

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Trump Goes to War

Why the Energy Department’s science labs will spearhead the federal push into AI

Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice

Elaine Scarry says pain unmakes language. Jan Steyn begs to differ — or at least keeps translating and typing

War Rations

Virginia's Impending 'Assault Firearm' Ban Is Logically and Constitutionally Dubious

Perceptual Shifts Part II: The Hunter’s Interface

Thursday Poem

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Asia Adrift, Asia Alone

Social Salvation: By Bach Alone?

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

Science Alone Won’t Stop Lassa Fever

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

Sleep is subjective and lonely. What if it turns out we’re not alone in the bad dreams that plague us?

The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living