The U.S. Embassy said a draft law allowing users to opt out of systems that choose what they can see in their feeds could amount to censorship.

The ring may have belonged to a woman who became the canoness of a priory in the 14th Century.

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

I have a confession to make. Up until recently, I didn't really understand why everyone loved Madonna so much. I didn't think the Michigan native

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

I chose the photo where I’m with Dad outside the Hugo Losers Party, with my bright blue jacket and my squidgy-handled cane—Dad’s injured hand is in his pocket, not visible, but I know.  So there it…

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

Recent cancellations of major musical theatre productions, including Waitress and Beetlejuice, have raised an obvious question: has Australian theatre become too expensive?

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, an...

For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thi...

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries' true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

How a censored music became the heartbeat of resistance and independence. In the spring of 1968, a cargo vessel set sail from Baltimore bound for Rio De Janeiro with a shipment of musical instruments ...

This piece appeared on my Patreon account way back in 2022. I thought I’d move it here so that it would be more accessible.

A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.

Walter Benjamin works on/with his notebooks Most researchers are told early on to keep a research journal. The journal is a place to record stuff – ideas, possible lines of inquiry, potential…