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Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age, From Rope to Thread and Twine
Crosscut: war on terror aftermath
The End of Reading Is Here
What Will Happen to Indian IT?
Art Can Be What You Smell
Crosscut: human side of learning
An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI
There Is No ‘Nordic Model’
Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
Crosscut: sports betting apps
America’s tallest, most spectacular trees are getting…heat stroke?
How dreaded dacoit Phoolan Devi became an irresistible legend
Opinion: I’m a doctor. Here’s what I want the public to know about AI tools and health care costs
What replaced the slave trade?
Physicists who uncovered the first particle accelerator were honored with a Nobel Prize 75 years ago – their work shaped physics, medicine and even art research
Who lost Afghanistan?
Crosscut: fighting mosquito diseases
The AI-Assisted Strategic Own Goal in the Kill Chain
Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
Why long-brewing physical and mental breakdowns feel so sudden
The Case Against Exceptionalism
Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
Crosscut: instinct and reason
Sons and Mothers
What Was the Biggest Dinosaur? Fragmentary Fossils Make It Hard to Tell
‘Golden Kamuy’ and Modern Russo-Japanese Relations
The Hardest Thing to Say: On Neurodivergence and Work
Crosscut: running and physical stress
Return Of The Repressed In Germany
People have to be treated as people
As private equity, politics and prediction markets reshape sports, is the press box up to the task?
‘Digger’ Review
Crosscut: unlearning gun violence
Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
Our AI Midwife
Mosquitoes are picky eaters – we studied 3 common South Florida species to learn why they like some people more than others
Mr. Monk And The Unfinished Book
The Other Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
Crosscut: health and longevity
Reason is more than a tool
The human frequency
What fish can teach us about AI: Reflections on reading ‘What a Fish Knows’ alongside ‘Scary Smart
Why the Bronze Age collapsed
The unbridled joy of printing your favorite photos
Crosscut: military obedience and democracy
Why Is Brazil So Interested in ASEAN?
The long shadow of Argentina’s dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was – neither was her father | Meaghan Beatley
Chamique Holdsclaw Made Headlines, Made Mistakes, And Made History
‘Fountain’ might make you laugh or scowl but asks important questions – a Philly art historian explains why Marcel Duchamp’s iconic 1917 sculpture still provokes
Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets?
Crosscut: rethinking cancer risk
She’s spent two decades talking to parents who don’t vaccinate their children. Here’s what she’s learned
Addiction, Control, and Recovery in the Modern World
How One Trick Play Tells The History Of Football
Another Symptom of Growing Isolation
Crosscut: bureaucracy that works
The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust
The way we talk to bots matters even if they aren’t conscious
Is it “microcheating,” or just being online?
The Militarization of Outer Space: Chinese Infrastructure in the Global South
Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Reasoning together
Who gets to speak for Eritrea?
The Mughal emperor who tried to merge Vedanta with Islam
The Humble History of the Bedpan
When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering
Why AI has trouble predicting the fury of hurricane intensity
Crosscut: engineering friendship
At a Pivotal Moment of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass Delivered a Speech That Reframed What Was at Stake if Slavery Stood
How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia
The Generational Difference in Southern Manners
Everything in Moderation
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
Forgetter
‘Hope’ Review
Crosscut: keeping resources at home
Long Night Over Hualien: The China Threat Through the Eyes of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
How red went from the color of revolution to the color of Republicans in US politics
Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh
How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
The evil eye is irrational. Abandon it at your peril
I Spent Three Sweltering Days Shredding The High Seas At Jogging Pace, And It Ruled
Crosscut: adapting the odyssey
Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI
How John Coltrane is my bridge between two loves – jazz and Carnatic music
Lessons from Wyatt Earp country
Does my pet have a soul?
José Mourinho Gives Real Madrid Exactly What It Paid For
A New Generation of Moms Who Get High
Crosscut: vigilante entertainment
What Europe’s migration deals are really buying
The 1970s law holding back modern biotechnology
Opinion: The science on relieving cancer symptoms is clear. Why isn’t insurance paying?
On “Derek,” Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother
Diabolical Motherhood
US Subways Build Too Many Cross Passages
The Book Claiming to Teach Couples How to Select Their Baby’s Sex