‘The Chilean Forest’ by Pablo Neruda
Under the volcanoes, beside the snow-capped mountains, among the huge lakes, the fragrant, the silent, the tangled Chilean forest… My feet sink down into the dead leaves, a fragile twig
This Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Generative AI is a data hog. The algorithms behind chatbots like ChatGPT learn to create human-like content by scraping terabytes of online articles, Reddit
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Evolution’s New Narrative: Life is a Decentralized, Horizontal Network, Not Merely a Centralized, Hierarchical Tree
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not casting doubt on the fact of evolution. I am saying that the way most people
Researchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
Iris Kulbatski in The Scientist: The gut’s sensory system is a touchy subject thanks to specialized epithelial cells that line the gut and behave like touch sensors in the skin.1 These cells are sensitive
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Jim Harrison: Why I Write
I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the mirror and say, “I am getting old,” but Shakespeare looks in the mirror and says,
How Does Language Begin in the Womb?
by Darshana Narayanan at Aeon: Some restless infants don’t wait for birth to let out their first cry. They cry in the womb, a rare but well-documented phenomenon called vagitus
Cars Beat Climate in Court
Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor of the Imagine Newsletter: For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four
Not Yet Panicking About AI? You Should Be
Daniel Kehlmann in The Guardian: I do not want to demonise the revolution we are experiencing. I believe nothing as fascinating has happened in the realm of the human mind
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
Yascha Mounk at his own Substack: Eitan Hersh is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, focusing on U.S. elections and civic participation. His latest book is Politics Is for Power:
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Nadeem F. Paracha: Pakistan’s “Useful Idiots”
by Nadeem F. Paracha at Dawn: Numerous books have been written on Islam in Pakistan. So, two years ago, I set out to write a book on the history of
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Wednesday Poem: Ghazal For Brevity
A mantra sets in with just one word.A dream can end with just one word. A human’s lifetime of asking questions—why?—will begin with just one word. The babysitter fastened baby’s
The Kamala Gamble
Michael Baharaeen at The Liberal Patriot: Joe Biden rocked American politics over the weekend with the news that he will be the first incumbent president since Lyndon Johnson in 1968