They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
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
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
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.
Alex Tabarrok drew attention a couple of weeks ago to this study: disagreement with the consensus on controversial topics corresponds with worse understanding of non-controversial knowledge, like that we breathe oxygen from plants or that electrons are smaller than atoms. The authors then correlate respondents’ scores on the objective
The ability to do more doesn’t equate with wise judgment or good character. What we bring to AI matters at least as much as what AI can actually do.
The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might be behind us. Based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt. As we’ll see, the number of people in
In times of injustice, anger, or outrage, patience can both inform and fortify us. Booker states, “Practicing patience doesn’t mean that you push your anger aside, that you don’t acknowledge it…Bringing patience in to support your anger can feel like a sacred pause, a deep listening as