Christa Pike Deserves the Death Penalty

What a Canada–Europe Alliance Needs

All-around junior male

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

‘China Shock’—or Minor Perturbation?

Perceptions

Are Right‑Brained People Really More Creative?

Socializing Safety

Doctor, Patient, and AI

Inchon or Bay of Pigs? The Hormuz Test

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment

From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing