On 11 September 2001, firefighter Jay Jonas was inside the North Tower when it collapsed.

Since beginning his second term, the US president has said he wanted to use the word 'America' to rename a lake, a gulf and even a US state.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always. | 612 comments on LinkedIn

The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…

A new bill would let the US government order the shutdown of AI models that pose a public threat.

The Florida retiree says the plate has caused quite a stir among her local community.

A.I.-generated images are the public face of this election overhaul. Behind the scenes, campaigns are using the technology to analyze voter data, craft campaign materials and write custom messages.

I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.

Figure 1 in Nordhaus (1992) depends on $\theta_1, \theta_2, \xi_0, \xi_1$ and initial values $Y_0$ and $L_0$. It displays the values used for $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$, but not the others. I have...

William Adams was convinced that solar energy could change the world. The problem was, he needed more sun to demonstrate it.