1+ week, 2+ day ago   (102+ words) The coming of the internet, with its invitation to universally accessible knowledge and the free exchange of ideas, seemed to affirm the promise: Our machines wouldn’t enslave us; they would liberate... Technology was once seen as countercultural. What happened? In…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (28+ words) The Atlantic More land has burned so far this year than in any year in the past decade....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (48+ words) The Atlantic Large wildfires in Canada and Minnesota have been sending plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, turning the sky shades of yellow or orange from the U.S. Midwest to the East Coast, and prompting countless air-quality alerts....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (77+ words) The Atlantic Delivering a human baby is not uniquely difficult. Generally, the most limited section of the human birth canal is the section between the upper part of the sacrum and the front of the pelvis. But in other primates,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (16+ words) The Most Confusing Jacket in America The Atlantic I bought the most confusing jacket in America....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (740+ words) The AI chatbot’s misgivings raise the question of whether it would refuse an illegal order. Two months ago, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam, talking to a chatbot about killing people. “Claude, how do you feel about…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (261+ words) The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (16+ words) While researching a woman who went deep on the JFK assassination, I was pulled in, too....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (480+ words) Testing reveals that efforts to suppress one algal bloom seem to be fueling another. Donald Trump has a new nemesis, with a name worthy of a supervillain: Scenedesmus. The pool, at the moment, looks like a strange bit of modern…...