Category: Lifestyle

Alan Cowell on Using Pigeons to File News From a War Zone

by Alan Cowell at the Air Mail: Watching the nano-second messaging of modern electioneering from…

An Indigenous Myth and a Geological Survey of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in People

From the Aeon Magazine: Located in the Yukon Valley in a remote stretch of northwest…

TGIF: The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been

By Suzy Weiss at The Free Press: Biden dropped out: Six years ago emotionally, but…

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…

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David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated.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…

Civility Won’t Save Us

Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable…

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…

Jim Harrison: Why I Write

I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the…

How Does Language Begin in the Womb?

by Darshana Narayanan at Aeon: Some restless infants don’t wait for birth to let out…

Cars Beat Climate in Court

Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor of the Imagine Newsletter: For planning to block a motorway…

Not Yet Panicking About AI? You Should Be

Daniel Kehlmann in The Guardian: I do not want to demonise the revolution we are…

Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism

Yascha Mounk at his own Substack: Eitan Hersh is Professor of Political Science at Tufts…