Why We Are Not Our Brains

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Free Palestine

“Medium Roast, Cream, No Plastic”: New Coffee Cup Coating Protects Against Microplastics

California Counties Targeted Get-Out-the-Vote Ads to Users Interested in “Gangsta Rap”

Why Politicians Love Stimulus Checks

The Five Stages of AI Grief

Teachers’ Unions Should Back the Scholarship Tax Credit

The Childlike Innocence of the American Protester

U. Colorado Regent-vs.-Regents Lawsuit, Cannabis, Race, and Legislative Immunity

This Photo of the ISS Next to Jupiter Was Two Years in the Making

The Evolutionary Arc From Pigeon Brains to Machine Consciousness

Hunt for natural hydrogen, an elusive clean fuel, hits roadblocks

Europe’s Bright Future

Annie Ernaux: “Alfred Nobel’s intentions were noble. But everything that follows — the mountains of mail, the endless requests — is a burden”

The last Shakespearean. The professional literary specialist is increasingly an endangered species

The Female Iron Age Queen Who Helped Bring Britain to its Knees

“Astonishing” Find: Fossilized Dinosaur Blood in a 115-Million-Year-Old Specimen

A barbarian tribe’s mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

Methodical/mercurial

China space experiment creates coldest temperature ever