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Crosscut: animal history and evolution
I Tried to Protect My Oldest Daughter From Pain. I Didn’t Think I Would Be the Source of It.
Leonard Cohen’s Dark Faith
I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement
Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs
These Devoted Dads Across the Animal Kingdom Will Warm Your Heart This Father’s Day
Crosscut: documenting the real
The blood cancer that became solvable
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
What Is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds
'Cute Little Guy': Scientists Discover a Tiny Blue Species of Octopus by the Galápagos Islands
Crosscut: revisiting behavioral icons
From Pyongyang to Primorsk: When Sanctions Evasion Becomes System Design
How will AI make moral decisions for you and me?
Tolstoy and the Illusion of Inevitability
Opinion: I’m an Alzheimer’s specialist. I still missed it in my own father
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
The Women Who Don’t Own Clothes
What we misunderstand about absent fathers
Rock Chalk Algeria
Crosscut: football and national identity
My AI Opinions
How AI could make wars go nuclear
How 19th century Goans who arrived in Zanzibar became one of East Africa’s wealthiest communities
Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets
It’s Hard To Find The Feel-Good Angle Of Alexander Zverev
Why older people are happier and what we can learn from them
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
This Colorful Parrot Had Been Seen Only Once Over the Past Century. Birders Just Rediscovered It in an Unexplored Indonesian Forest
By Ruskin Bond: A boy finds a purple stone that glows in the sunlight. But this is no ordinary stone
Crosscut: ai human systems
A staggering reversal of assumptions
When Work Moves Without Workers: Nepal and Asia’s New Mobility Frontier
The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space
AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State
The Economic Path to Climate Justice
Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely
Dreaded don to dear grandfather: Actor Bharathiraja’s many faces
The Americans Shelling Out Five Figures for a Coat of Arms
Crosscut: political integrity complexity
Flickering Enlightenment
A Market Bubble Led by AI
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides
In Defense of Difficult Reading
Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required
Actually, the SAT Was Necessary After All
Opinion: Why STAT is sticking with ‘health care’ as two words
Crosscut: conflict norms repression
How AIs See Our World
How much more software do we really need?
To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival
Not all empires look the same
Why we crave company
In a new book, Stephen Alter writes about discovering monsoon beetles and bugs as a young naturalist
The Gin and Tonic Is a Cocktail With a Storied History. Don't Overlook Scotland's Connection to the Classic
Crosscut: human purpose
What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
Scientists Made Sourdough Bread With Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body
Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war
PFAS leave fingerprints in your blood – researchers are figuring out how forever chemicals transform in your body to read these clues
How Japan stopped civil war
Crosscut: new paradigms progress
Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
Did Human Ancestors Walk on Their Knuckles Like Today's Chimpanzees? New Research Adds More Evidence to the Debate
I asked a billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn’t go well.
The triumph of capital
Sometimes Stopping Extremism Means Getting Your Hands Dirty
Letting friendships die
The Moment I Realized My Career as a Cop Was Over
Crosscut: blind spots of belonging
Control Without Ownership: How China’s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia’s Mineral Supply Chains
Hollywood’s About to Change (Again)
Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive
NYC is full of undiscovered species — and we’ve hatched a plan to find one
Food history: How America (and the world) developed a taste for hot sauce and ‘spicy’ sweets
Can ecosystems malfunction?
Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty
Should you feel guilty for killing the bugs in your house?
The Weaponization of GLOMAG: How Rivals Co-opt U.S. Sanctions to Target Business and Political Opponents
Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
Meet One of the Most Prolific Artists From Prison Music’s Golden Age
Planning for America’s Democratic Renewal Must Start Now: Lessons from Poland
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
The Lessons of Sacrifice
Hun Sen Feels the Heat
Lawmakers Ask DOJ Watchdog to Investigate Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report
Why raves are such a reliable source of spiritual experience
Beneath our human shallows
New Paradigms Won't Save You
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
Rights require money
To Memorialize the Fallen, Renew the Pursuit of Peace
Being small
Make immigration boring
Gen Z but two centuries ago