The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…

Experts analyze why Covid severity has declined, who still benefits from booster shots, and if a once-feared virus is now more like plain old colds or flu.

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake