What Became of the Chimps Who Revolutionized Our Understanding of Animal Behavior?

Where the Fire Catches: Understanding Parkinson’s

How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

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Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

Michel Foucault, who warned against domination, became dominant himself. He'd have savored the irony 

How the Right to Trial Became a Legal Fiction

Understanding the inner thoughts of AI: Hannah Fry speaks to Neel Nanda

How Social Media Became Antisocial

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

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Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot