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Mary L Trump at The Good in Us: The system which, depending on your perspective, is either broken or working exactly as designed, is something Mitch McConnell has worked within
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Bruce Hood at Aeon: My own tutee students, whom I met on a regular basis, were reporting poor mental health or asking for extensions because they were unable to meet
Atul Dev in The Guardian: Today, Amit Shah isn’t home minister for Gujarat, but all of India. From the heart of power in Delhi, he is in charge of domestic
Continue reading‘He Likes Scaring People’: How Modi’s Right-hand Man, Amit Shah, Runs India
Jo Adetunji at The Conversation: Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise
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Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about
Continue readingNASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Finally Phones Home After 5 Months of No Contact
Dana Smith in The New York Times: If you put a lab mouse on a diet, cutting the animal’s caloric intake by 30 to 40 percent, it will live, on average,
Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child,Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog,The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils,Then barked and wailed; the boy who
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“AI systems are going to be like a new species that might be smarter than us, and I think we should be very careful before we make these kinds of
Continue readingWhy a Forefather of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fears the Future
Ahmad Ibsais in Time Magazine: “Where is Ahmad?” The soldier called my name while we were stopped at the last Israeli checkpoint on the way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I am
Joe Fassler at Lit Hub: Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I found myself writing about flight. It started as just a few paragraphs, a bit of
Continue readingA Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight
Lucy Moore at Literary Review: After they were released from prison in Paris in the late autumn of 1794, both having narrowly escaped the guillotine, new bosom friends Rose de
Marc A. Caputo at The Bulwark: WHENEVER DONALD TRUMP BRANDISHES a stack of papers or reads a printout of a social media post, he’s relying on the work of Natalie