Did Music Give Rise to Language?

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

Flight Prices Rise

Remembering Brian Doherty, Chronicler of and Participant in Wild and Wonderful Subcultures

No Defamation Liability for NYU Report Summarizing Court Filing Alleging Prosecutorial Misconduct

On empathy

Anthony Bourdain’s Life In Fiction And The Kitchen

Why the Media Pushes Public Health Myths

Money Still Matters

Research on fruit flies and other ‘model’ organisms may be declining

Medical Research Is Hopelessly Caught in Red Tape

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Rise and Rise of the Civil Rights State

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

Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models

Conviction for Use "of Racially Charged Language" to Police Officer

The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians

What is electronic music?

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

The Names of the Game: Moral Language and the Killing of Alex Pretti

Give Ukraine Back Its Future

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music