The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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A study notes marked lifespan increases in mammals that have been castrated or kept on contraception
The post Is the Secret to Long Life Freedom From Procreation? appeared first on Nautilus.
Universal Credit Jobs (UCJ) is the simplest credible version of a Job Guarantee that can be delivered in the United Kingdom
Faced with economic theory’s apparent inability to address real economic and financial problems, economists retreat into the wonderful world of models. Instead of constructing theories based on empirical facts, they abandon the real world and prove things about imagined ones. If the goal is knowledge about the real world, the value of these exercises is, […]
Still Life with Plaster Head, 1947 by Vanessa Bell. Oil on board. 53.5 44.5 cm. Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2025.
Honestly, I don’t know to whom this letter is directed. God? Harvard? (I’m taking a deep, strengthening breath here) Will Hunting himself? My employer-provided therapist told me to do this, and the university committee says to do whatever she says.
For many years now, I have taken my kids on ski trips several times a year. They still protest, saying skiing is okay, but we don’t need to go every time I have weekend custody. They’ll appreciate it one day when they have kids of their own and relentlessly take them on ski trips.
The part they complain about most is how long it takes to actually reach the resort, because I need to stop at every fast-food drive-thru we pass, where I always order fries. Just fries. No burgers, no drinks, fries. And I always pay close attention to the person serving said fries because I know—I don’t think, I know—that eventually it will be Will Hunting and my prophecy will be fulfilled. I cannot be wrong about that. Because if I am wrong about that, I could be wrong about anything. Or everything. And then, am I even alive? Was I ever?
I wasn’t quite sure what this moving, warm-and-fuzzy feeling was, until research put a name to it: ‘kama muta’
- by Hannah Seo
At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need it
- by Kiran Kumbhar
The Trump administration is killing civilians in the Caribbean and Pacific and trying to suppress videos of boat strikes and press coverage.
The post “Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner” appeared first on The Intercept.
Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain so necessary?
- by Kwame Anthony Appiah
An essay about fibroids, and the time I bled on the floor at work.
The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.
The post ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System appeared first on The Intercept.
Consider four events that vividly capture the spirit of our times. In late August 2025, in the port city of Tianjin in northern China, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin — surrounded by the heads of state of twenty-three other non-Western nations (among them Iran, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics) — sealed an […]
The soft rumbles seem to reveal more about a feline than their meows, and it’s probably thanks to humans
The post How We Changed Cat Sounds Forever appeared first on Nautilus.
The deadly pathogen is adept at jumping between neurons, making it an ideal tracer to reveal how connections change after a dose of psilocybin in mice
The post Rabies Virus Helps Map Psilocybin’s Brain Altering Effects appeared first on Nautilus.
Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.
Recent headlines about the denim ad wars—Levi’s tapping Beyoncé, American Eagle turning to Sydney Sweeney,...
New model suggests cosmic rays from a supernova led to the formation of our planet
The post Was the Earth Created by a Supernova Shockwave? appeared first on Nautilus.
A shire man suspects that a Christmas present and card that he received today from his mum and dad’s cat may not actually have been bought, wrapped up and written by the pet. “Mittens is a pretty smart cat, like he... Read More ›