How Charles Darwin Inherited His World-shifting Ideas on Evolution

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AI and the Global South’s Next Leap Forward

No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Today in Supreme Court History: February 14, 1845

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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

Tracing the California lineage of Charles Bukowski’s publisher

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Gitlow Revisited: Disentangling Ideas and Crimes Via the Harm Principle," by Ronald Krotoszynski

Colleges Are Stuck Between Bad Options for Fighting Hateful Ideas

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia

The Year of the Starter Home

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us

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