Articles

The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos

Paul Glister

Status as a Service (StaaS)

What happens when you type "google.com" and press enter?

Multi-country civilizations are good, actually

Etienne Fortier-Dubois

Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful

exurbe

The 15 Year Layover

Michael Paterniti

Mechanisms too simple for humans to design

Malmesbury

If You're So Smart, Why Can't You Die?

Collin

What happens when we treat the past like a stock library

Elizabeth Godspeed

Agnes Callard: what is the value of fiction?

Henry Oliver

Goodnight Moon

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

Numinous Response

Lamorna Ash

The Legitimacy Barrier

Kaiser Y Kuo

A Natural History of Beauty

Kevin Simler

The housing theory of everything

John Myers

Sorry Not Sorry: The Art of Saying Nothing in Apology Statements

Michelle Cyca

The populist phantom

Larry Bartels

Nostalgia Is Killing the Multiverse

Angelica Jade Bastién

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Gay Talese

Elegance and hustle

Max McGuinness

The Making of Community Notes

Asterisk

The Origins of Wokeness

Paul Graham

Why Do Hindu Women Work Abroad but Not in India?

Alice Evans

Schools vs. Screens

Luc Rinaldi

My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers

Caity Weaver

What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon

Will Leitch

Milestones

Mark Krotov

How Intellectuals Found God

Peter Savodnik

Opera is for Everyone

Annie Levin

Not Even The Warping Kind

Becca Rothfeld

Catholic movies f*ck me up, Vol. 1

Carter St Hogan

Wicked is making me insane

Clare

ways of seeing differently

Helena Aeberli

get a weird job!

Mary Rose

Money Changes Everything

Millicent Souris

Swimming in molasses: depression and how to stay afloat

Anne Katherine Scanlon

digestif

Julia Harrison

The Muslim Men I Know

Noha Beshir

Lady in the Medieval City

Parttimelady

you are the horizon.

Raechel Anne Jolie

A Parking Lot Apple Tree

Subsomatic

Both Joyful and Killjoy

Alicia Kennedy

"living Danishly" isn't the solution we think it is

Lala Thaddeus

Good Ancestry

Phil Christman

Capitalism Creates Hungry Ghosts

River Selby

publishing is a fake industry

Lyta Gold

All Good Sex Is Body Horror

Becca Rothfeld

How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics

Joshua Roebke

Finish Your Projects

R Meager

'You Can Live the Wrong Life'

Michael Rance

You Have To Say Thank You For The Paintings You Like

Briana Soler

Eleanor Catton Wants Plot to Matter Again

B. D. McClay

Trespassing For The Common Good

Samuel Firman

Metamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can

Marcia Bjornerud

Hal Foster

Hal Foster

Why You May Be Wrong About Harris's Loss

David Wallace-Wells

Prediction and control in natural and social systems

theseedsofscience

It's Obviously the Phones

dirt

The world of tomorrow

worksinprogress

The AI We Deserve

bostonreview

In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

lithub

On Bonfire Night

the-hinternet

Authenticity as dialogue

henrikkarlsson

How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital

statecraft

Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

astralcodexten

Futarchy Futurism

overcomingbias

Learning to love. How the poet Dana Gioia discovered his vocation through music.

commonreader

Look Who's Talking

thebaffler

against the dark forest

wrecka

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

theparisreview

Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly

dynomight

Building Optimism, An Excerpt

ourbuiltenvironment

Broken Bones: America's Violent Indifference toward Women

katemanne

DEFENSIVE COMMUNICATION

reagle

The Legacy of Red Vienna

nybooks

Against Autofiction: Two Paths for the Internet Novel

spikeartmagazine

don't deceive yourself

personalcanon

'Here I Gather All the Friends': Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study

publicdomainreview

The Early Christian Strategy

astralcodexten

It's ok to live in a fantasyland

elysian

Lady Baker and the source of the Nile

harkness

Care doesn't scale

stevenscrawls

Gravity is not a force

superposer

Blood and bright ideas: How we made light cheap

bigthink

HTML Form Validation is heavily underused

expressionstatement

The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects

wired

The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame Cathedral

gq

Histories of the Greater West

etiennefd

China's Sentinel State

chinamediaproject

The Romantic philosopher

commonreader

Do we still want the future desired by the past?

elysian

Neurodiversity and normal people in Intermezzo.

commonreader

The Naming of America

jonathancohenweb

Why intellectual humility isn't always a virtue

aeon

The survival skills of Helena Valero

woodfromeden

Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy

annehelen

Age of Empires II at 25: the strategy game that inspired a generation of historians

theguardian

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

lithub

'We know what we are.' Mating: a romance of rationalism and pragmatism.

commonreader

The Canary

washingtonpost

How to Make a World Cup Bid

statecraft

Why the U.S. Can't Build Icebreaking Ships

construction-physics

There is More Than Is Dreamt of in Our Academic Philosophy

chronicle

Trivialised to Death

lrb

Intermezzo

4columns

Normal People

4columns

The Searchers

washingtonpost

Contra Trent Horn On Bodily Autonomy And Abortion

thingofthings

Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

lithub

On The Tolkienic Hero

scholars-stage

Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel

tabletmag

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

thewalrus

Psychofauna Studies: A Manifesto

theseedsofscience

Reading Oneself

thedriftmag

A Revolution in Biology

theseedsofscience

The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?

warontherocks

We hebben een serieus probleem

edwest

Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?

esquire

The Myth, the Murders, and the Matter of the Bloody Countess Báthory

thethreepennyguignol

The Mahabharata is a socio-historical process that's also an incredible text

woman-of-letters

What You Can't Say

paulgraham

Isaac Asimov Asks, How Do People Get New Ideas?

technologyreview

good artists copy, ai artists ____

personalcanon

The Chic Young Divorcée

dirt

The illusion of a pagan West

unherd

The Pursuit of Worldliness

worldblog

My Insane, Degenerate, Overpowering Chess Obsession

samkahn

Monstrous Things

quillette

Hinduism doesn't exist

woman-of-letters

the how and the why

sarahendren

REPOST: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

experimental-history

Forever Less of Beauty

bittersoutherner

Turkey City Lexicon

sfwa

The Hard Humanities Fiction Manifesto

ozybrennan

Creative fury

drmaciver

Beyond Smart Rocks

growbyginkgo

Why we should give votes to kids

thecritic

Is that right?

dirt

Introducing Ecologies of Entanglement

are.na

The University Is Making Us Unwell

parapraxismagazine

Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Mental Health Care

thingofthings

The First Culture Warriors

etiennefd

A Tove on the Table

lrb

Life amid Ruins: A Conversation with Costica Bradatan

3quarksdaily

Jude Law on HBO's The New Pope

vulture

Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard

harvardmagazine

Fabricating Dreams: On How an Unknown Publisher in Edo Japan Enticed the World

themontrealreview

How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?

lifeandletters

We should let the government actually do stuff

jamesomalley

Will AI create a new creative renaissance?

commonreader

The Yale Review

yalereview

Adventures Close to Home

hedgehogreview

The game theory of strategic ambiguity explained with Seinfeld

theseedsofscience

Imagination vs. Creativity

ribbonfarm

Do Navigation Apps Think We're Stupid?

theatlantic

Is Dating Really That Hard Right Now?

bustle

Index's Limit

parapraxismagazine

Strategic Altruism: The Machiavellian Roots of Human Kindness

theseedsofscience

On filler

dirt

We Will Never Be Friends

parapraxismagazine

Sexual Ethics Beyond Consent

thingofthings

Ireland rejected James Joyce. Did he reject it back?

commonreader

A Most Dangerous Wish

parapraxismagazine

Secondary Gain 003

parapraxismagazine

Failure to Appear

parapraxismagazine

Coke Sober

dirt

Metro-North Is My North Star

defector

Libertarianism With the Cultural Exception

etiennefd

The Shareholder Supremacy

wheresyoured

Brutal birth

insidestory

Why do people persecute city pigeons?

bbc

On the Endless Symbolism of the Best Summer Movie Ever Made: Jaws

lithub

Tinder Hearted

thecut

Pilgrim at Tinder Creek

thepointmag

What does solitary confinement do to a person?

deseret

The Most Dangerous Law in America

democracyjournal

research as leisure activity

personalcanon

Aurora

dirt

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

maggieappleton

How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?

newyorker

Normcore Was Always a Misunderstood Fantasy

ssense

It's mad that this important piece of our election infrastructure is run by a bunch of volunteer nerds

jamesomalley

Bears vs. Men

thingofthings

The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

theverge

Love Is Blind: Inside Season 7 of Chris Coelen's Experiment

vulture

The Fastest Path to African Prosperity

palladiummag

Against Stories

samkahn

The secret history of the red book of Hamlet

ft

Tony Blair: There is a void at the heart of Labour's Brexit strategy

newstatesman

"Women Are Drowning in Responsibility"

annehelen

Normativity and Anti-Normativity

sarahconstantin

Culture Needs More Jerks

defector

The Moral Economy of the Shire

wordpress

I ran away to Spain

thewhitepube

I Don't Know How to Live if My Anorexia Dies

electricliterature

Captain Corelli's Machine-Gun

lrb

My Last Five Years of Work

palladiummag

We Were Boys Being Boys

electricliterature

Sono tutti in ufficio

mailchi

Why Is Chinese So Boring?

chinaheritage

Against Euthanasia

the-hinternet

Are you serious?

visakanv

The Most Precious Resource is Agency

simonsarris

Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist's History of Drugs

slimemoldtimemold

Super Cute Please Like

nplusonemag

Reading Solzhenitsyn for the First Time

themontrealreview

Chinese Keyboards: A Forgotten History

ieee

Gmail will break your heart

linksiwouldgchatyou

The Social Lives of the Teens Who Don't Have Phones

thecut

Whither Utopia?

strangeloopcanon

Jesse Armstrong on writing America from the outside

newstatesman

Fuel, Medicine, Pleasure

longreads

It's the Real Thing!

thebaffler

The Shape of Nuclear Policy

construction-physics

'You Are My Friend': Early Androids and Artificial Speech

publicdomainreview

Why books don't work

andymatuschak

The Sacredness of Desire

allcatsarefemale

Thus I Lived with Words

nybooks

Why Is Everything So Ugly?

nplusonemag

How do animals get their patterns as explained by Turing mechanism

knowablemagazine

Just Live

drb

Sex Goblin

4columns

How to Make a Great Government Website

asteriskmag

50 things I know

sashachapin

Seeing Like a Data Structure

belfercenter

Prototyping for resilience

dark

Trash metaphors

dirt

World in a Box

placesjournal

How Shakespeare rehearsed

commonreader

Music in Human Evolution

meltingasphalt

Why wasn't preservation with the goal of potential future revival started earlier in history?

neurobiology

A 'plague' comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

thebulletin

How Ancient Rome Built A Psychologically Resilient Culture

classicalfuturist

Living Luminously

lesswrong

Meditations On Moloch

slatestarcodex

Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard

pinyin

You and Your Research

virginia

The Axes of Agency

allcatsarefemale

Helen Vendler and the Recognition of Black Poetry.

commonreader

My First Book Review

dirt

Decreasing the Risk of Nuclear War Is Hard, but Possible

latecomermag

On English Melancholy

thereader

how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration

personalcanon

Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

nytimes

how to write about art

personalcanon

from 'ermahgerd' to 'muahaha:' how millenial humor got so cringe

culturevulture

The hot business of cold storage

sherwood

In defense of feeling

dirt

The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash

drionaitalia

On John Woolman

thingofthings

What Do Plants Know?

pioneerworks

That's Not How Stains Work

annehelen

Thirst-trapping your way to the top

allcatsarefemale

Default Heterosexual Sadomasochism

allcatsarefemale

Has the right gone woke?

allcatsarefemale

How 2014 Changed the Internet Forever

theringer

Andrew Lang and the catawampus of Romance

commonreader

How Gmail Became Our Diary

nymag

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

retool

The Paris Review

theparisreview

Losing the Plot: The 'Leftists' Who Turn Right

inthesetimes

Why Everything is Becoming a Game

gurwinder

Somewhat Against Trans-Inclusive Language About Biological Sex

thingofthings

Exit the Supersensorium

theseedsofscience

I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare's Gibberish

lareviewofbooks

When Your Profession is On Fire

annehelen

Occlusion

dirt

Variations on the Theme of Silence

wustl

Why Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions

scientificamerican

Summer is Made of the Memory of Summer

theparisreview

Political polarisation by gender: a matter of aesthetics?

writingruxandrabio

Tumblr Transformed American Politics

theamericanconservative

Free Play

reason

Hostile to Female Status Altogether: Reading "Intercourse" With Gender Dysphoria

ghost

There's Nothing Unnatural About a Computer

growbyginkgo

Between Flesh: Tech Degrees of Separation

13thgwangjubiennale

Cutting class

dirt

Personal Science Week - Genetics

theseedsofscience

Ending a Friendship Over Taylor Swift

thecut

Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse

pioneerworks

Sex Alters

parapraxismagazine

Idle Worship

parapraxismagazine

Why do some people always get lost?

knowablemagazine

Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media-and driving some to suicide.

bloomberg

Love, Hate or Fear It, TikTok Has Changed America

nytimes

Insatiable: A Life Without Eating

longreads

Measuring the mobile body

eurozine

The Cloud Under The Sea

theverge

We Need To Rewild The Internet

noemamag

Don't Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife

oxfordamerican

Auto Show Dispatch

nplusonemag

Cash/Consent

nplusonemag

It's Not What the World Needs Right Now

thebaffler

The love that dare not speak its name

thecritic

Writing as labor

dirt

Does Science Fiction Shape the Future?

nautil

Democracy: no alternative

hardcurrency

A System of Government Based on Plato's Head, Chest, and Abdomen Theory

addamledamyen

Proposed Law on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

shonistar

Imagining our Martian Government

lianeon

The lottocracy

aeon

Yearn in Review

dirt

tiktok creator miriam tinny on microdosing retirement

rat

Shut up about Luxury Beliefs

writingruxandrabio

After the Miracle Drug

theatlantic

Baby's all right

dirt

Can I Join You in the Cloud? Or, Longing for the Google Doc

atmosphericquarterly

Mahrukh Aamir on Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries

atmosphericquarterly

Conversation: Jo talks to Stephanie Burt

atmosphericquarterly

Compulsive Reading

parapraxismagazine

What Is Default Friend All About?

default

Computer Love

comment

Lesbians Who Only Date Men

default

We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine

strangeloopcanon

Notes on Notes

are

A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It's Arrived.

nytimes

Does anyone have the right to sex?

lrb

What was it like when oxygen killed almost all life on Earth?

bigthink

There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

lareviewofbooks

Startling differences between humans and jukeboxes

experimental-history

Snakes and Singularities

adjacentpossible

The Baffling Intelligence of a Single Cell

jsomers

Myths of Grit and Passion

annehelen

To the train lady with dark brown hair: extraordinary stories of four couples who found love via small ads

theguardian

Grindr at 15: Has the app ruined gay sex forever?

dazeddigital

The pure poetry of the shipping forecast

ft

The genius of Britain's anti-intellectualism

ft

Putting the democratic crisis into perspective

ft

An ambitious Mumbai museum project sets Indian history in a world context

ft

Kristin Scott Thomas: 'I suppose I've always been quite pro-conflict'

ft

Zero-Covid: China's year of forgetting

ft

Is a high IQ a burden as much as a blessing?

ft

The wildest stories from 132 years of FT history

ft

Spare us the sanctimony on fit and proper media owners

ft

Remember the untemperamental geniuses

ft

Muzak is getting an AI upgrade. This time, let's try to appreciate it more

ft

Can a Zelda film ever live up to the beloved game? This fan is sceptical

ft

How common are you?

ft

Hot stuff: why readers fell in love with romance novels

ft

Will you marry me? (Warning: comes with a risk of social contagion)

ft

Fifteen-minute cities are about convenience, not conspiracy

ft

America, Iran and the threat of a wider war in the Middle East

ft

The humbling of the maths snobs

ft

Why expenses are a fraught form of fraud

ft

What will the London of the future look like?

ft

What the world gets wrong about 'civilisation'

ft

Convenience stores should make more of themselves

ft

The Decay of Cinema

nytimes

At Miu Miu, in Paris

theparisreview

The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income

mit

How to fix the internet

technologyreview

VICE's Legacy and the Idea That 'The Internet Is Forever'

404media

The Glass Famine

edconway

The Science Fiction of the 1900s

kschroeder

The case for open borders

vox

a view source web

viewsource

Return to Desire

angelfoodmag

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

80000hours

The soul moved the pen, and broke it.

commonreader

Science will only end once we've licked all the objects in the universe

experimental-history

Indifference, the Vital Force

parapraxismagazine

The Dark Heart of Individualism

annehelen

Aumann-agreement is common

tailcalled

Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology

theconvivialsociety

Kinda nice

bydamo

13 Observations on Ritual

honest-broker

Tools for Thinking About Censorship

reactormag

Memento Mori

thebaffler

Why Everyone Hates The Electronic Medical Record

logicmag

How Antarctica's history of isolation is ending-thanks to Starlink

technologyreview

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets and Vladimir Putin

wired

Logical consistency is a social burden

medium

On the Military Failures of Fascism

acoup

Trans Sitcom

dirt

The Lure of Divorce

thecut

sugar in the blood

blgtylr

What's Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits

sapiens

The talk: a brief explainer of sexual dimorphism

theseedsofscience

AI and Aaronson's Law of Dark Irony

scottaaronson

Hex Marks the Spot

museumofplay

Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.

nytimes

For Heaven's Sake

airmail

Death, Lonely Death

crookedtimber

Ant geopolitics

aeon

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math's Famed Fractal

quantamagazine

Ads Don't Work That Way

meltingasphalt

Love And Liberty

astralcodexten

Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

annehelen

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

wordswithoutborders

The Beauty of Everyday Things

misfitsarchitecture

20 writers share their lessons in love - part one

conversationsonlove

The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue

undark

The Menu Trends That Define Dining Right Now

nytimes

The Fate of Free Will

nybooks

A Holistic View of the Cell

latecomermag

Close reading the trees

escapethealgorithm

Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?

danluu

The Forgotten History of the Chapter

themillions

That landslide long ago...

davidaaronovitch

Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media

nymag

Are "algorithms" making us boring?

maxread

The world has turned and left me here

dirt

AI Is Already Better Than You

cohost

Wikimedia's Pornographers

404media

A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft

construction-physics

Community Responses To Bad Behavior

thingofthings

What We Discovered on 'Deep YouTube'

theatlantic

Analyzing the Historical Rate of Catastrophes

ghost

24 Hours of Highly Subjective Wisdom

slate

can i manage infatuation in a "healthy" way?

mixedfeelings

The Birth of My Daughter, the Death of My Marriage

newyorker

A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime

noemamag

Sneaker Shopping

evilfemale

The Potent Pollution Of Noise

noemamag

The Anti-Airbnb-Space

annehelen

Declining trust in Zeus is a technology

experimental-history

Epistemic Hell

secretorum

Magic Ink

worrydream

Poor Things (2023)

iwillneverlogoff

I was Hypnotized as a Teen. Was it Dangerous?

longreads

The Rest Is Silliness

van-magazine

Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

lithub

The Psychopolitics Of Trauma

astralcodexten

Why are some Rich Societies Conservative?

ggd

I love everything about the Apple Vision Pro, except wearing it

digitaltrends

The Psychology of Fantasy

astralcodexten

He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.

washingtonpost

Celebrity Death

dirt

Throwback: What if we did less?

mysweetdumbbrain

Living with the Veil of Progress

arbesman

Our language, our world

aeon

2023 letter

danwang

From Addison Rae to King Kylie, 2014 Tumblr is back in a big way

nbcnews

Casting light on relief map shading

nationalmuseum

Archives, AI, and Music of the Early Web

medium

Asemic Writing and the Desire for the Esoteric

samwoolfe

What the west forgot about democracy

ft

What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?

thecut

What's new with ML in production

vickiboykis

How Elites Cause Crime By Acing Marshmallow Tests

radicalcontributions

Evaluations are all we need

strangeloopcanon

How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?

newyorker

You Will Miss the Pizza Delivery Driver

theatlantic

Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet

newyorker

If One Part Suffers

harpers

This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline

ghost

A Knife Forged in Fire

chicagomag

Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group

theparisreview

Our Generation Ships Will Sink

boingboing

How Gen Z, Millennials, & Gen X Really Feel About Plastic Surgery

thezoereport

The Importance of Inferring Intention

buildonomy

The End of All Things

theapocalypse

Notes Towards a Post-Avant Pastoral Language

prolitmag

Happiness Is Bullshit

everythingisbullshit

On Incoherency

befriendingdelusion

Architecture In the Age of Now

cultureuncurled

A Year Without You

tessa

It's the Culture, Stupid!

dilettantepost

We need capitalism 2.0 to fix the environment

daylightreveries

The Hidden Complexity of Thought

outsidetheasylum

'I don't want to be happy, I want to have an interesting life'

nodirectionhome

The Involution of Everything

wearenotsaved

Why Are Literature and Philosophy Such an Awkward Match?

newrepublic

Mao's Great Famine

ethanedwards

Exit the Matrix

spikeartmagazine

Toward a shallower future

noahpinion

The Favourite Patient

hazlitt

Chartbook 258 War, peace and the return of history in 2023

adamtooze

The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 Into Turmoil

politico

A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet

hakaimagazine

Who Gets A Nation?

noemamag

Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy

thewalrus

The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking

strangehorizons

So you wanna de-bog yourself

experimental-history

Can We Imagine a World Without Work?

bostonreview

The joy of sulk

aeon

The Age Gappers

thecut

Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

theguardian

Yamagami Tetsuya's Revenge

palladiummag

AnaĂŻs Nin's Decade-Long Adventure in Bicoastal Bigamy

altaonline

How to Exclaim!

themillions

Zola understood our lust for shopping

unherd

I'm very aware of being public school now. All those things you loathe': Toby Jones on class, character and the cost of fame

theguardian

The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

annehelen

The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier

switchyardmag

The Resurrection of the Bawdy

jdvjournal

Digital Graveyards

evilfemale

Andrew Ng: 'Do we think the world is better off with more or less intelligence?'

ft

Inside the rich visual world of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

ft

Form and Matter: Hylomorphism

1000wordphilosophy

How millennials learned to dread motherhood

vox

The Universe Wants Us to Take Her Clothes Off With Grimes

palladiummag

The invisible price of water

eurozine

The Gerontocracy Waged War on Gen Z. Now They're Fighting Back

rollingstone

Vibe Check

businessinsider

I Do Some Sermonizing

margaretatwood

What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?

defector

Evolution of Pain

colinmcginn

The algorithmic anti-culture of scale

garbageday

This is what an unmoderated internet looks like

garbageday

How Celebrating Girlhood Quickly Became the Internet's Favorite Trend

whowhatwear

Selling Citizenship

newleftreview

A silken web

aeon

Twitter Was So Many Things

theverge

Extremely Softcore

theverge

The Great Scrollback Of Alexandria

theverge

Macro and Micro Necessity

colinmcginn

Why Indian Buddhism has gardens, not monasteries

psyche

Who Doesn't Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

lithub

Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream

washingtonpost

How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

stephenwolfram

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus

antipope

The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life

nytimes

The End of Retirement

thewalrus

The haunting of modern China

aeon

The patterns of reality

aeon

The billionaire problem

prospectmagazine

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