A third place for the internet.

An article published by Carnegie Mellon University collating thoughts from AI experts on the current language used when discussing AI.

This article gives an overview of Monte Carlo event generators, which act as a bridge between theory and experiment in particle physics.

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto holds the largest publicly accessible collection of rare books and manuscripts in Canada — roughly 740,000 volumes including Margaret Atwood's and Leonard Cohen's papers — and unusually, much of it can be handled by the public, not just viewed behind glass.

Link to the catalogue of demonstrations and visualisations from Wolfram.

This paper studies how AI agents' choices are influenced by their peers. It is found that advanced models tend to follow the majority, and they can use this mechanism to coordinate groups far larger than human groups.

A book on Zettelkasten, principles of note-taking, and how to use writing as a tool to think.

This article discusses the wildfires in Canada, caused by the climate crisis, and the public response to hold fossil fuel CEOs accountable.

This article tells a story of the birth of neural networks. Two physicists, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton, are the inventors of neural networks. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to them.

A piece on why ADHD often goes undiagnosed until graduate school -- when the external structure of undergrad coursework disappears and the self-directed nature of research suddenly makes executive-function differences much harder to compensate for -- and why getting a diagnosis can matter practically, not just personally.

The article examines emerging evidence that the human genome functions as a dynamic, three-dimensional system whose activity depends on cellular and environmental context, rather than as a fixed set of genetic instructions. It explores whether this complexity may limit AI models that rely primarily on DNA sequence data, while highlighting ongoing research aimed at integrating genome structure, regulation, and cell state to improve biological predictions.

Tom Colicchio’s flagship restaurant has shut down after 25 years.

This article reviews the history of particle physics briefly, including its successes and failures.

This paper describes oxygen loss in water not merely as another consequence of climate change or pollution, but as a potentially independent threat to the stability of the Earth system.

The central idea is that aquatic deoxygenation, i.e. declining dissolved oxygen in oceans, lakes, rivers, reservoirs and coastal waters, should potentially become a tenth "planetary boundary."

An article highlighting the effectiveness of citizen scientists.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

"A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fantasy novel first serialized in 1912. Confederate veteran John Carter is mysteriously transported to Mars, a dying desert planet called Barsoom. With superhuman strength from the planet's lower gravity, he becomes entangled with warlike Green Martians and rescues Dejah Thoris, a princess of the humanoid Red Martians.

A sheriff comes under fire when two S.B.I. agents question his involvement in an unsolved murder case that shares distinct similarities with a recent homicide.

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An article by The Guardian breaking down how climate change exacerbates weather cycles such as El Niño and La Niña.

A well-researched opinion piece on the dynamic between American farmers and their president, Donald Trump.