The Secret Superpower of OCD
How a novelist used swimming laps to quiet her mind and unlock her creativity.
How a novelist used swimming laps to quiet her mind and unlock her creativity.
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
South Carolina Salkehatchie had no budget, players or running water in the locker room when Matt Lynch arrived. One season in, the first publicly gay head coach is figuring out how to win, on the court and off.
“It gets the intense hierarchy so right.”
If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.
If govts could focus a bit more on infrastructure and transportation, the heart of Pakistan would be able to pump a lot more life and activity.
How Breath of the Wild ignited a love of games for a 96 year old woman
Research About us Contact Subscribe Donate Rhodus Intelligence special report Manufacturing base of the Russian military industry as the key chokepoint of the…
The Mystery Social Media Account Schooling Congress on How to Do Its Job Ringwiss, an influential X account, is changing how the public understands Congress,…
In 2021, as a component of a long-running career plan to heavily monetize my two worst qualities, pedantry and obsession, I undertook the task of “annotating”…
At around 9 A.M. every weekday, a crow caws in the Jardin des Plantes, the oldest botanical garden in Paris. The sound is a warning to every other crow:…
Under cover of darkness, I boarded a Navy vessel at a heavily guarded military base along the Eastern Seaboard. The location and time of departure, as well as…
Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.” The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design,…
Willige Langerak polder, Utrecht, 1984. [© Rijkswaterstaat / Gerrit Zeilstra] “God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands.” So the saying goes, in…
The BBC’s Leire Ventas is granted rare access to Cecot, a secretive maximum security prison.
Opinion Commentary Wyoming Hits the Rare-Earth Mother Lode If managed wisely, the discovery at Halleck Creek will make the U.S. the world’s indispensable…
We have now had a little over a week with Gemini Advanced, based on Gemini Ultra. A few reviews are in. Not that many, though, compared to what I would have expected, or what I feel the situation calls for. This is yet another case of there being an obvious thing lots of people should do, and almost no one doing it. Should we use Gemini Advanced versus ChatGPT? Which tasks are better for one versus the other?
The Print Fair returns to Park Avenue, with a critic’s advice on connoisseurship, and where the buys are.
What the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future.
The Silicon Valley establishment has grown so suspicious and fearful of original and authentic belief.
The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading, writing, had
AI tools provided by companies like Palantir raise questions about when and how invasive tech should be used in wartime
Last week, the Hugo Awards melted down over unexplained disqualifications. Insiders tell Esquire what really happened—and what it could mean for the future of literary awards.
After Zac Brettler died, his parents struggled to decode the mystery of what had happened to him. They thought that they could pinpoint the moment he’d started…
Using a headcam, scientists recorded the world from a baby’s point of view. Now they have trained AI with those recordings to probe how children learn language.
A book excerpt from Brené Brown's Dare to Lead book — We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.