Like Painted Kites, Those Days and Nights Went Flying By

Were these ancient rock images painted with human blood?

I Played a Game Simulating the Aftermath of the 2028 Election. Here's How It Went.

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

Surrogacy Contracts, Abortion, and Peonage

Digital Cryptids and Consensus Reality

Open Thread

<em>Science</em> investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

Dispatching Humphrey’s Executor

Tyler Austin Harper found his “dream job” at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and talk of a “would-be Klansmen around every corner”

The White House's Push To Pause the Hemp Ban Smells Like Cronyism

AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

Summer-Haters Anonymous

In Post-Soviet Georgia, a Fledgling Libertarian Movement Faces an Increasingly Authoritarian State

Large tarnished metal rings depended from her earlobes

DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds

How art invented humanity

A Federal Judge Slams Trump's IRS Lawsuit As a Pretext for Delivering a Phony 'Settlement'

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique