The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way

What evolution owes aging women

The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.

Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.

During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where…

The English word “agency” comes from the Latin agere, meaning “to do” or “to drive,” and goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root *ag-, meaning “to lead o…

Essay by Aaron Schuster - Unwilling Revolt

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Father Damien was a dirty man. Everyone agreed on that. Dirt would accumulate under his fingernails; he rarely washed his hands. His clothes—his habitual cassock and wide-brimmed hat—were worn for …

Human beings are, of course, perverse—both in ways that enrich our lives and in ones that hinder us. All too often, we remain “secretly attached to the continuity of the very things we (sincerely) …

The fight to protect Mauritania’s ancient books.

I know you are conditioned to think that what you are researching has to be novel.  But let’s think about it for a second.  Is the importance of novelty and the constant push for it in publications ...