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By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t. We seem to regard the capacity for language (by which we mean our kind of
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Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews in which I take a brief detour into ants and collective behavior more generally. I
Of course, when my mother askedthat I give my wife a kiss for her, I did so,telling my wife, I am my mother, kissing you.My wife’s mother, it turns out,
Shared by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (aka Qalandar), California: Mid summer burst … of tomatoes, peppers, and garden herbs. You won’t find it at your local Olive garden Revolutionary Mexican salad
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Rachel Dec in LA Review of Books: IN 2022, AS THE labor market thrived, a noticeable gap emerged between traditional economic indicators (which seemed good) and the lived experiences of
Bill Gates in Gates Notes: Melinda and I sometimes read the same book at the same time. It’s usually a lot of fun, but it can get us in trouble when
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O my good! O my beautiful!Atrocious fanfare where I won’t stumble!enchanted rack whereon I am stretched!Hurrah for the amazing work andthe marvelous body, for the first time! It began amid
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump announced his administration’s signature policy on the administrative state—the constellation of agencies, institutions, and procedures
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a lot for are now cheap or even free—think about how much it costs to buy
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Samira Ahmed in New Humanist: There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, that hangs in a science building at the University of Edinburgh. It
W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund
By Edwin L. Battistella at OUP: A while back, a philosopher friend of mine was fretting about the adjective “existential.” She was irked by people using it to refer to