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I've been teaching college students for decades. Most of them can no longer finish a book

I assume students will do the reading of long, dense texts, week after week. Lately, that assumption has started to feel naive.

Fortune · Jul 26

Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have failed to since 1939.

Fortune · Jul 21

'Dinosaur Descendants': Harvard Study Claims Aliens May Be Hiding on Earth

Harvard researchers propose the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, suggesting UFOs might indicate hidden civilisations on Earth, urging scientific openness to alternative explanations.

International Business Times UK · Jul 21

Harvard study finds spending just two hours a week on this habit could help you live longer, cut heart disease and dementia death risk; combining it with aerobic exercise may lower early death risk by up to 45%

New research suggests strength training offers significant health benefits. Just 90 to 120 minutes weekly lowers death risk from all causes. This exercise also reduces the likelihood of dying from heart disease. Neurological conditions like dementia also show a decreased risk. Combining strength and aerobic workouts provides the greatest health…

The Economic Times · Jul 19

Inside the '90s-Inspired World of 'Elle' – How Production Designer Laurin Kelsey Reinvented The Beloved Legacy of 'Legally Blonde'

We sat down to discuss all things nostalgia, pink, and character development through interiors

Homes & Gardens · Jul 19

How Termite Architecture Is Teaching Engineers Ventilation and Cooling Design They Never Imagined

The mound that outperforms your air conditionerMacrotermes michaelseni, a termite species common across sub-Saharan Africa, builds mounds that can rise four to five metres above the ground and extend several metres below it. Inside, the colony maintains a temperature of roughly 30.5°C year-round. Outside, temperatures swing between 3°C at night…

Times Life · Jul 19

Why Daydreaming Is the Missing Tool in Your Productivity and Creativity Toolkit

Chanakya Knew the Idle Mind Had Work to DoChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a minister who never rests will exhaust his judgment before he exhausts his enemies. The principle was about statecraft, but the neuroscience behind it took another 2,300 years to arrive. In 2001, neurologist Marcus Raichle at…

Times Life · Jul 19

The Axolotl Can Regrow Its Own Heart, And Scientists Are Studying It to Understand Human Healing

A creature that does not scarCut off an axolotl's leg and it grows back. Not approximately, the bone, muscle, nerves, and skin return in the correct arrangement, fully functional, within weeks. The same happens with its heart muscle after damage, with segments of its spinal cord after injury, and with…

Times Life · Jul 17

Astronomers find planet surprisingly like Earth in huge milestone for search for aliens

First ever discovery of its kind is an ‘absolute thrill’, researchers say

The Independent UK · Jul 16

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution

Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society

The Guardian - US · Jul 16