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Masha Hamilton at Atavist: The sky is dark. The highway hums beneath our tires. We’ve covered a lot of miles today, and the night is pressing us off the road, toward a Virginia rest stop where, years ago, a man was murdered in a bathroom. I want to see the door he pushed open, stand…| 3 Quarks Daily
Aimee Pugh Bernard in The Conversation: Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is so seamless that most people don’t think about it until something goes wrong. Autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, lupus…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Ed Simon at the European Review of Books: Around five thousand years ago, along the northern bank of the Black Sea where the soil was rich and feather grass plentiful, the nomadic Yamnaya people sang songs about the heroes who slayed dragons. A warrior named Trito is given cattle by the gods, but this most…| 3 Quarks Daily
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: A few years ago, it looked as if the U.S. and China might battle over global hegemony and preeminence. But this looks less likely now, thanks to America’s own behavior. Under Trump 2.0, the U.S. has alienated many of the key allies it would have needed in order to match China’s market size…| 3 Quarks Daily
Violeta Ruiz at Aeon Magazine: On 25 November 1915, the American newspaper The Review published the extraordinary case of an 11-year-old boy with prodigious mathematical abilities. Perched on a hill close to a set of railroad tracks, he could memorise all the numbers of the train carriages that sped by at 30 mph, add them up, and provide the…| 3 Quarks Daily
Merrill Fabry in Time Magazine: In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that they included dozens of others, from an unbreakable lightbulb to paper that was easier to recycle. It was the start of…| 3 Quarks Daily
Stephanie Edwards in Discover: We all have those family recipes that get passed down from generation to generation. From chocolate chip cookies to grandma’s secret spaghetti sauce, these recipes connect us to our past and our loved ones. But some of these family recipes are a little more unique than the rest — like the tradition…| 3 Quarks Daily
This Only A valley and above it forests in autumn colors. A voyager arrives, a map leads him there. Or Perhaps memory. Once long ago in the sun, When snow| 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël Newman On Yom Kippur this year, I went to church. I hadn’t intended to go; or rather, I hadn’t noticed that the Jewish Day of Atonement would coincide with the date of the performance I had been planning to attend, and which was to be held in a church. I had realized just…| 3 Quarks Daily
by Marie Snyder It feels like I understand the idea that all suffering comes from expectation in a way I didn’t used to. Now it seems so obvious, but I’m not really sure what flip was switched. It’s not just that if we stop expecting to get things, we’ll be happier, but how ridiculous it…| 3 Quarks Daily
by Eric Feigenbaum “We have to develop Singapore’s only available natural resource, its people,” Lee Kuan Yew often said in one variation or another. Lee, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, held the role for 31 years before his “emeritus jobs” of Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor – staying active in Singaporean government until his death…| 3 Quarks Daily
Anastasia Tsioulcas at NPR: The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, who also writes fiction. The winners of each category will be announced on Nov. 19 at an event in New York City. Also being honored are…| 3 Quarks Daily
Matthew Hutson in Nature: Are AIs capable of murder? That’s a question some artificial intelligence (AI) experts have been considering in the wake of a report published in June by the AI company Anthropic. In tests of 16 large language models (LLMs) — the brains behind chatbots — a team of researchers found that some of the most popular…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Conor Feehly at Noema Magazine: Matthew Egbert, a computer scientist at Auckland University in New Zealand, has spent the last 15 years building computational models of autopoietic systems in their most basic form. These “cellular automata” help test ideas like autopoiesis outside of the complicated world of biology, where disentangling all the complex chemical machinery of living…| 3 Quarks Daily
David Hudson at The Current: “Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found between shots,” Ken Jacobs told Víctor Paz Morandeira in a 2015 Notebook interview. “Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new play of appearances is possible here.” On Sunday, that…| 3 Quarks Daily
Steven Greenblatt in Harvard Magazine: He was a radical, the inventor of blank verse, a master of internal monologue, and a victim of murder. This was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary and rival of William Shakespeare—and perhaps the Bard’s key creative influence. At 14, young Marlowe—the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler—won a scholarship to…| 3 Quarks Daily
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by John Allen PaulosElection season has put an increased focus on the stock market, but little attention is ever paid to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (the| 3 Quarks Daily
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