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By Suzy Weiss at The Free Press: Biden dropped out: Six years ago emotionally, but technically this past Sunday, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. He did it
Continue readingTGIF: The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been
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
Continue readingThis Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated.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
Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable storm. A storm so dire and visceral that it seems to be the stuff of
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
Continue readingResearchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
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,
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
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
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
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:
Continue readingEitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama were delayed. Thousands waited in the terminal, exhausted and impassioned by the march they had
Continue readingMartin Luther King and Philosophical Personalism
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River Neckar)” is Iqbal’s ode to silence. A short lyric poem, it describes a rare personal
Continue readingGoethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence