The New York Times profiles Emil Ferris's "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters".

How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says.

AI is not just another research tool; it is redefining what research is, how it is done and what counts as an original contribution.

Creative experiences and brain clocks.

The case that AI is thinking. Of course, the question is what is meant by "thinking".

Mrs Dalloway’s demons.

Large language models appear to possess metalinguistic capabilities.

Thomas S. Kaplan plans to securitize the Leiden Collection of Dutch Golden Age painting with the shares to be listed on a public stock exchange.

The West is lost at least according to German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz.

Nature surveyed scientists about their favourite cinematic moments to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

Financial Times interview with Rick Owens.

How manga was translated for America.

Inside the data centers that train A.I. and drain the electrical grid.

When athletes devote large amounts of energy to running or cycling, they unconsciously cut back on energy output elsewhere.

Lorraine Daston reviews Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction by Sadiah Qureshi.

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability. "Medina et al. found that camouflage was more beneficial when it was rarely used by prey and in low-light environments, whereas warning coloration was less beneficial in high-predation environments, where competition between predators may motivate them to sample aposematic insects."

Foraging ants as liquid brains.

Georg Friedrich Haas’s 11,000 Strings at the Armory in New York.