The AI Tipping Point

What Amodei’s Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong

Who Will Do the World’s “Most Impossible Job”?

Major Questions, Nondelegation, and the Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

When Words Are No Longer for Us

Once upon a screen: explosive paradox

The People Not Worth Replacing

NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

Meet the Influencers Boosting Zohran Mamdani’s Administration

Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis 

The Birth of the New Legal Right

Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability — time disorientation is real

Why Opposition to Data Centers Is Perplexing

Researchers tune into Arctic under-ice sounds and test through-ice communication

Hyena Ethics: When Harming Others Feels Righteous and Pleasing

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

Open Thread

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

Critics of AR-15 Bans Urge SCOTUS To Reject the 7th Circuit's Distinction Between Civilian and Military Arms

Sunniest of Mornings, Grimmest of Days

Open Thread