Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting point, say historians(theguardian.com)

73 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 56 comments

London Mayor Blocks Palantir(theguardian.com)

103 points by ZiiS 5 months ago | 19 comments

'A Neolithic feat of engineering': Orkney dig reveals ruins of tomb(theguardian.com)

35 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 11 comments

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father(theguardian.com)

58 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 12 comments

British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds(theguardian.com)

19 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 7 comments

Archaeologists reveal life stories of people from medieval Cambridge(theguardian.com)

9 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 2 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

Is Curiosity Good for Us?(lrb.co.uk)

39 points by NaOH 10 days ago | 20 comments

London Review of Books essay by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the superego, guilt and shame, and whether curiosity about ourselves is good for us.

Reading the Anthropic S-1, with Zvi Mowshowitz(complexsystemspodcast.com)

14 points by nbernard 7 days ago | 0 comments

Complex Systems podcast episode and transcript in which Patrick McKenzie and Zvi Mowshowitz analyze Anthropic's S-1 IPO filing, covering governance, compute commitments, and AI risk.

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia(cambridge.org)

51 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 33 comments

Open-access article in the Cambridge journal Iraq examining the role of religion in scribal education in first millennium BCE Babylonia.

Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type(hedgehogreview.com)

8 points by prismatic 27 days ago | 1 comments

A Hedgehog Review book review essay by Sam Gee on the religious faith of poet Alfred Tennyson, from the Summer 2026 issue.