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t doesn’t help that the two most impressive implementations of AI for real work - Claude’s artifacts and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter - are often hidden and opaque

Led by public figures like Michael Pollan, Tim Ferriss, and even Joe Rogan, and leading institutions like Johns Hopkins, NYU, Berkeley, and Imperial College London, therapeutic psychedelics are going mainstream again

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's... See more

verything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning.

Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll... See more

Aristotle held contemplation as the highest human capacity, ranking it above activity, because it involves thinking about the cosmos, which far exceeds in beauty and complexity any work of human hands. From his perspective, actually reading a book—the work of human hands—would not be true contemplation. I do not follow this Aristotelian definition... See more

n 2022 the amount of money that cyber-insurance providers paid out to American companies came to more than $4bn. Claims included business-interruption costs, crisis PR services, support from incident-response teams and ransom payments, which gangs tend to demand in the form of cryptocurrency. The following year ransomware attacks shot up 70%,... See more