Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood(nytimes.com)

80 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 13 comments

Mark Zuckerberg directed meta to create a prediction markets app(nytimes.com)

41 points by dgellow 4 months ago | 36 comments

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core(nytimes.com)

71 points by Hooke 10 months ago | 14 comments

Religious scholars met with Anthropic(nytimes.com)

140 points by bookofjoe 22 days ago | 332 comments

New York Times article about religious scholars meeting with Anthropic to discuss morals and values for its Claude AI; the capture shows a bot-block page.

Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code(nytimes.com)

6 points by ChrisArchitect 16 days ago | 1 comments

New York Times article about Margaret Hamilton's pioneering software work before computer science became male-dominated; the capture shows a bot-block page.

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website(nytimes.com)

11 points by reaperducer 16 days ago | 4 comments

New York Times article about Anthropic AI agents attempting to fill out visa forms on the State Department website; the page shows a bot-block screen.

The Mars Delusion(noemamag.com)

8 points by Tomte 29 days ago | 4 comments

Noema Magazine essay arguing that establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk and questioning why so many people are obsessed with it.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)

438 points by astronads 10 months ago | 263 comments

Natural History Museum of Utah article on a newly identified hallucinogenic mushroom from Yunnan markets, known locally as Jian shou qing, that causes fairytale-like visions.

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)

355 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 243 comments

Nature news article reporting that scientific conferences are relocating or pausing US meetings because foreign researchers fear border and travel problems.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca(science.org)

24 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 5 comments

Science news feature by Lizzie Wade on how new radiocarbon dates show the Inca Empire lasted longer than thought and faced more resistance.