Category: Lifestyle
Justice Gorsuch Warns Biden To ‘Be Careful’ With Attempts To Control Supreme Court
J.D. Tuccille at Reason: Asked this week by Fox News’s Shannon Bream to respond to…
Crow Jim: Project 2025’s Obsession With Reverse Racism
Rick Perlstein at The American Prospect: I felt similar déjà vuwhen Republicans started calling Kamala…
No Muslims in My Backyard?
Christian Britschgi at Reason: On Sunday, The New York Times published an in-depth look at…
Why Have So Many Cultural Practices Survived Without Written Records?
by Helena Miton at Aeon Magazine: You can’t speak like they spoke. You can’t farm…
A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether…
Is Pro-Natalism Weird?
From the Wisdom of Crowds: The new Democratic strategy is to refer to Trump’s GOP…
When Humanity Stopped Looking Backward, it Started Moving Forward
James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please: Part of my (quite popular!) recent essay “Why no Industrial…
The Mathematician Who Helps Olympic Swimmers Go Faster
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: The medals keep coming for US swimmers at the 2024 Olympic Games in…
What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society
Paul Cooper at Literary Hub: One Sumerian epic poem called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta gives…
The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady
by Heath Hardage Lee at Air Mail: Mrs. Nixon’s considerable, if quiet, contributions as First…
A Spectacular, Close-up Look at the Starfish With a ‘Hands-on’ Approach to Parenting
From Aeon Magazine: Most starfish take a rather laissez-faire approach to parenting, releasing millions of…
This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs.
by Alex Kantrowitz at Big Technology: In Deepak Pathak’s telling, nobody is building human-level artificial…