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Simon is also represented by Mama June’s talent manager, Gina Rodriguez.

The experimental Joint European Torus has doubled the record for the amount of energy made from fusing atoms — the process that powers the Sun.

On the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, Steven Pifer, one of the negotiators of that document, writes that it is time for the Unites States to make good on the security assurances it made to Ukraine. Doing so could prevent future nuclear proliferation.

I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that benefits society. But I still encounter people who balk at the possibility of a smart, engaged adult

It is not uncommon to perceive that which is alien to us through an exotic lens. It is easy to idealize that which we have no direct access to, but…View Post

How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each oth...

The tale of Venus and Serena Williams has been told many times. Now they get to be the ones to tell it.

A Kremlin-controlled Ukraine would transform Europe.

In the heated debate over vaccine mandates, science and logic have often been lost amid politics and fear.

The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave

As we all have, I have been watching the impressive Russian ground forces arrayed to invade Ukraine from three sides. Some comments after consultation with a good friend in the Marines: Upon due consideration, it might have been unthoughtfully wise to not place our military in harm’s way simply because it would have its clock handed to it. Our military, particularly the Army, is tailored for the 20-year war in the Sandboxes-not a Peer conflict.

How many queens can you place on a chess board so that none are attacking each other?

Google Workspace adds pageless documents, AI-generated summaries, and deeper ties to Maps and Gmail.

The Trump-backed Twitter lookalike looks near to launch, and for better or worse, this will draw more attention than ever to my favorite social network.

What do rights holders earn per Audible listener credit? Short answer: Much less than you think. Audiblegate, authors and narrators fight against Audiblehttps://static.wixstatic.com/media/41aed0_1021d44797c3460facdb3accc1c63689~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000%2Ch_850%2Cal_c/file.pngAudible Royalties Ain’t Royalties - by Colleen Cross

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

Not music nerds, obviously. I don’t know anything about music. I know there are letters but sometimes the letters have squiggles; I know an octave doubles in pitch; I know you can

Who is this? Princess Leia, right? End of Rogue One. Wrong, this is not Princess Leia. This is. A photograph of Carrie Fisher in her role of Princess Leia. Chances are, your brain can tell the difference between the two photos. The first is a computer generated image ("CGI") and the se

And politicians made things even worse

Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literature. In his simple and readable style,...

If not Tesla, this could be our Maruti Moment.

An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.Special thanks to these supporters: https://3b1b.co/lessons/wordle#thanksHelp fund future proje...

“Suppose the only Negro who survived some centuries hence was the Negro painted by white Americans in the novels and essays they have written. What would people in a hundred years say of black Americans?” This is the question posed by W. E. B. Du Bois in his lecture “Criteria of Negro Art.” The […]

by Emrys Westacott The philosopher Theodore Adorno, probably with activities such as reading serious literature and listening to classical music in mind, famously said about himself: I have no hobby. Not that I am the kind of workaholic who is incapable of doing anything with his free time but applying himself industriously to the required…

You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible.

Eugenicist thinking was rejected after the Holocaust, but in the era of Big Tech, the idea that humans can be “engineered” has resurfaced in a new guise.

In 1905, physicists understood something of the laws governing two types of forces: those of electricity and magnetism and of gravity. We’ve seen that the laws of electricity and magnetism, encoded…

Who you are in a venue matters far more than the venue itself.

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