How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking.
Interview with the always interesting Rem Koolhaas (in Japanese, use your browser to translate). Note that the Countryside. The Future exhibition referred to in the article was held at the Guggenheim New York in 2020.
A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain’s inner workings.
AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done.
Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.
Review of The West. A History of an Idea by Georgios Varouxakis.
Europe’s summer of wildfires is just a taste of what’s to come.
Too hot to sleep? How heatwaves at night affect our health.
The summer the ticks took over.
Compounds released by weeping willows are becoming a major contributor to air pollution in cities.
Jill Lepore on the America that 9/11 made.
Ali Smith’s paired novels Gliff and Glyph are like a set of mirrors installed at irregular angles: themes repeat, flash, and fade, reflecting the afterimages of stories we can’t process or forget.
Philip Glass. The virtuoso of repetition.
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.
Terrence Tao on mathematics in the Age of AI.
Dance is neither a tool nor an accessory for Madonna. It is an unwavering force in her performing life.
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body.
John Maynard Keynes and the search for the good life.
A new play about John Maynard Keynes speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich Hayek.