Could Eating Less Help You Live Longer?
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,
Thursday Poem: Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
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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Why a Forefather of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fears the Future
“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
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Imagining a Free Palestine
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
A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight
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
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The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
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
Her Name is Natalie Harp. She’s 32. And She Has Unbelievable Access to the Man Who Might be President Again.
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
Wednesday Poem: The Artist and His Shadow
He is unfit for this life, thisunduly managed era devoidof poesy and freedom, a timeof useless haste in honor ofthe illusion of progress,a life starving of life, a lifedripping with
Can ChatGPT Mimic Theory of Mind? Psychology Is Probing AI’s Inner Workings
By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: If you’ve ever vented to ChatGPT about troubles in life, the responses can sound empathetic. The chatbot delivers affirming support, and—when prompted—even gives advice
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Death of a President: What a Helicopter Crash Means for Iran, the U.S., and the World
Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo: This past weekend, a helicopter crash in the northwest province of East Azerbaijan left no survivors, including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. His death comes not only
A Thought Experiment: Does Originalism Make Sense?
In Kyu Chung at Harvard Law Review (HLR): Imagine that the people yesterday gathered to draft a new Constitution, which includes a First Amendment that says: “The government shall not
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What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
by Jeroen Bouterse at 3 Quarks Daily: In 2015, political scientist Larry Diamond warned against defeatism in the face of what he called the democratic recession. “It is vital that