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How Did the Nation Get Its Name? Other Suggestions Included the United Colonies, Columbia and the United States of Alleghania

Greg Daugherty at Smithsonian Magazine: When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot...

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Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain

Carissa Wong at New Scientist: Human brain organoids have been implanted into mice that are missing half their brain. Tiny versions of the human cereb...

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Kantian Aesthetics: The Beautiful & the Sublime

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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

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Remembering Richard Wright, Outsider

Clifford Thompson at The Common Reader: Richard Wright (1908–60) left behind seventeen book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, two of which, the...

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The Life And Work Of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

Moira Donegan at Bookforum: CELESTE DUPUY-SPENCER KEPT ODD HOURS. Before she died in April, Dupuy-Spencer, a prominent painter—commercially successful...

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The Face of Life At The Met

Xiao Situ at Commonweal: Portraiture is one of the first genres of art that young children produce. As soon as age three, toddlers begin to grasp the...

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A Vision of a Future Where Machines Fight Wars

Sarah Scole in Undark Magazine: Twelve years ago, Frank Kendall, then under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics at the Dep...

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Google’s Genome Atlas Predicts the Effect of Every Possible DNA Mutation

Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: Atlases have long guided us through uncharted territory. Now, an AI-generated atlas by Google DeepMind seeks to do the...

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Thursday Poem

   The first known account of surfing was written during the 1640s in what is now Ghana. Surfing was independently developed from Senegal to Angola. A...

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Horseshoe And -Shit: Left And Right, Up And Down

by Jochen Szangolies Last Sunday, on the sixth of September, for the first time in more than 80 years, a far-right extremist party won the majority of...

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Ben Lerner’s “Transcription”

by Derek Neal I read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, in one day. I started reading it on my iPad at around 7:30 am as I sat at my kitchen table...

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This Week’s Photograph

Tiny (about 1 mm diameter) stink bug eggs and newly hatched nymphs on a plant on my balcony. More specifically, they are very probably Asian brown mar...

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This Philosopher Thinks It’s Time We Call Out Evil in Our World

Jennifer Szalai in the New York Times: Susan Neiman has noticed a paradox. “As the world drifts toward disaster,” she writes in her new book, “our lan...

Sep 16, 2026 • Read Preview →

Scientists map massive layer of life just beneath our feet

Frank Jacobs at Big Think: We’ve logged and named almost every fold of the visible world. And yet until June, the most extensive piece of infrastructu...

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