Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

On the importance of a strong inside strategy.

S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

When I say "generative AI isn't going away," people hear "and you have to like it." You don't, and you might be right not to. But the is-ought divide here is real and we should all be preparing for both outcomes.

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

Patrick Lenton is the author of the book of short stories A Man Made Entirely of Bats, the book of comedic essays Uncle Hercules and Other Lies, and the full length short story collection Sexy Tales of Paleontology. Sexy Tales of Paleontology was shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award, 2022.

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Long before the shocking killings in Sydney, the threat of antisemitic violence was often left unchallenged. That must change

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

<strong>Heather McCormack</strong> was trying to play it cool with Rhodri. Then, 24 hours in a hospital waiting room showed her life was too short