“If you were to construct a baseball lineup of the western world’s foundational thinkers, Plato would almost certainly bat cleanup”

Today in Supreme Court History: February 16, 1833

Non-Hegemony

Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own Success

“ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up.”

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

“Most people who subscribe to scientific materialism take it to be so obviously correct that it could not be denied by any rational person who truly understood it”

India’s Game-Changing Digital Money Model

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World’s Largest Monopolies

The Pressure Moms Feel to Solve the World’s Problems

World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil

Tidal waves of lava may slosh around alien worlds

Leonardo Sciascia, Sicilian public intellectual, never got over seeing a mafioso tell an indebted shopkeeper that his daughter “seems almost alive”

Did Western psychiatric taxonomies eliminate such disorders as “pibloktoq” (a wintertime psychosis) and “kufungisisa” (thinking too much)?

The AI era might spur political revolt, but it will certainly spur a battle over who owns the infrastructure of intelligent thought

The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

Cephalopod Atlas: Stunning, Sensual Illustrations from the World’s First Encyclopedia of Octopus and Squid Wonders from the Ocean Depths

This Newly Discovered Asteroid, Almost Half a Mile Wide, Just Set a New Space Record