Wednesday Poem: Do Top Dogs Care
I place my body — life, in hands ofcorporate heads and engineersI am in my seat perched above a wingand through this little porthole peer. I slide my sight along
Looking Back on the Second Trump Administration
by Richard Farr at 3 Quarks Daily: Historians often ask what led to Trump’s landslide victory back in 2024. All those guilty verdicts in the “PornHush” trial certainly helped —
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Why Doctors Dismiss the Gut-brain Relationship
Xi Chen at Aeon: Today, unlike in the 1990s, it is well established that conditions like IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), collectively known as disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs), are real
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COVID Accountability: Fauci Made a Few Preposterous Claims During His Congressional Testimony
by Liz Wolfe at Reason: On Monday, Anthony Fauci—formerly the chief medical adviser to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director—testified
Our Biggest Challenges—from Global Warming to Demographic and Technological Transformations—Cannot be Resolved by Countries Acting Alone
By Gita Bhatt at the IMF Blog: Our biggest challenges—from global warming to demographic and technological transformations—cannot be resolved by countries acting alone. Yet just when we need greater international
How Sonia Delaunay Paved the Way for Wearable Art as We Know it
Lynne Cooke at The Burlington Magazine: Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in Europe in the inter-war years. Few, however, were as prescient, pragmatic and tactical as Sonia
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Erik Rittenberry: You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture
by Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: It’s quiet here in the early morning and no one’s around—just the way I like it. I’m sitting on a bench, sipping black coffee
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Tuesday Poem: Parking Meter
If a slot machine is a one-armed bandit,what does that make you? A cyclopeantroll? I don’t think it will catch on.Maybe there’s nothing poetic about you.A friend’s mother died the other day,and it
Human-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch
By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: We humans are highly visual creatures, but our skin has a sophisticated built-in system that lets us grab a cup of coffee, peel an
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Will Telepathy be Forever Out of Reach?
Roger Luckhurst at Aeon: In 2016, Elon Musk launched Neuralink with the aim of manufacturing an electronic implant in the brain that could link it directly to the computer network.
Where Our Philosophical Debates are Going
Samuel Kimbriel at Wisdom of Crowds: This week, I’ve been re-reading Better Never to Have Been, a book by the South African Philosopher, David Benatar.The book begins with the following
Biden vs. Netanyahu
Liz Wolfe at Reason: President Joe Biden has proposed a ceasefire plan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not yet on board. The key plank in dispute: how much of