How to write a rebuttal letter.
Anne Carson in the London Review of Books.
Computer chips are the most magnificent things humanity has ever made.
A new potato variety that tastes like roast chicken? Years ago I had a delicious dish at a Peruvian restaurant in London, which came with a selection of differently colored potatoes. I never knew that potatoes varied so much in taste.
The evolving story of how chemistry became biology.
Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions. An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought.
Body clock disruptions contribute to one in four cases of depression, suggests large study.
La grande illusion de la modernité. Philippe Descola et Bruno Latour ont bouleversé notre manière de penser les rapports entre l’humain et la nature. Un jeune chercheur révèle les ressorts de leur dialogue, longtemps méconnu, et éclaire leur désaccord fondamental: avons-nous jamais été modernes?
‘Forever chemicals’ are everywhere. Can new technologies get rid of them for good?
New research tests whether AI models know their own thoughts.
This AI ‘mechanic’ can peer inside the black box of other neural networks.
Susanna Clarke: In defence of fantasy fiction.
The cost of monetizing everything.
The devastating impact of humans on elephants’ social life.
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms.
AI has transformed maths — this is how we got here. The story of how maths came to run the world, and created the artificial-intelligence models that might surpass human mathematicians. Review of Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World by Steven Strogatz & Alex Townsend.
Interview with Peter Zumthor on the occasion of the opening of the extension to the Fondation Beyeler and the opening of LACMA.