Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life.
On Jean Tinguely.
Cosmologists try a new way to measure the shape of the universe. This is a subject that has long fascinated me. Indeed the question of space was the subject of my Master’s thesis in Philosophy.
Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.
Crowds suck people into a vortex.
James Gleick reviews A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present by Glenn Adamson.
This study explains the physics and mathematics of how and why a hula hoop can be suspended against gravity.
Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony.
Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says.
Ten wisdoms of Yohji Yamamoto.
If you had to store something digitally for 100 years, how would you do it?
Interview with Shigeru Ban.
Patricia Lockwood among the mystics.
New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection. I have my books sorted in a way that makes perfect sense to me: favourite books, books that I consult frequently, books that I purchased recently, philosophy, mathematics, science, sociology, economics, architecture, design, general non-fiction, British, American and Irish novels, novels in German and French, novels in translation by country. And I can instantly find any book I'm looking for!
An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place.
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem.
John Banville on the enduring mystery of "Las Meninas".
For two generations Sienese painters and sculptors engaged in a nonstop flurry of experimentation and innovation.
The idea that living beings have no free will might sound scientific today, but it remains as dogmatic as it has always been.
The return of the (original) celebrity philosophers.
Los Angeles has never seen this level of destruction. Los Angeles will forever have a special place in my heart so this hurts.