They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
This is an incredible moment of courage that happened in 2023. I’d never heard about it until this article. Nathan saved dozens of lives. Nathan started to think of himself as being in the right place at the right time. His instinct was to get this man and his
From an economist, about his extensive experiments with AI-driven academic research. I don’t have much of a research background, but his experiences seem right where expected. My point is that the experiment — can we do research at high speed without much human input — was a failure. And it wasn’
Australia's most prolific blood and plasma donor, James Harrison, has died at age 88. Known as the "Man with the Golden Arm," Harrison is credited with saving the lives of 2.4 million babies over the course of more than half a century. Harrison died in
Since my focus has been learning landscape photography, I've never really done any street shooting. Thanks to a kind invitation, I had a chance to head downtown and try my hand at it. (Thanks Daren, Jason, and Justin!) A bit of a grey day, and I need to
This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were shot on a Fujifilm X-T5. These aren't in any particular order. It was hard enough just choosing ten! 1. Bryce Canyon
Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the situation (and the student). I’d rather be cooperative the vast majority of the time. Your prediction about the effect
Companies laying off workers for AI agents are either misjudging how agents will work or they're just low-ambition companies.
This is absolutely fascinating and I’ve already spent too much time on this page when I should be finishing grades. All the biggest scientific or technological changes of 2025, ranked. How did the world change this year? Which results are speculative? Which are biggest, if true? We collected and
Apropos to my earlier post about the Springer textbook with fake citations, academic journals are seeing a rash of the same thing. What Heiss came to realize in the course of vetting these papers was that AI-generated citations have now infested the world of professional scholarship, too. Each time he
A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years. This happened over the summer, but I hadn’t seen the news
I don’t think I can adequately stress how bad this is for a publisher as big as Springer to screw up this badly. A new textbook of theirs had extensive hallucinated sources. Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book.
Why all good learning starts with a question that matters.