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3 Quarks Dailyby Carlota Figueroa4 Sept 2026
by Carlota Figueroa Have you ever heard of a particle’s spin before? If you have, I bet that the first time you were introduced to this concept you were told to imagine a ball that spins on its...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jonathan Kujawa3 Sept 2026
by Jonathan Kujawa Lots of people enjoy a good puzzle. Take Sudoku puzzles. Like many good puzzles, the rules of Sudoku are simple.
3 Quarks Dailyby Nils Peterson3 Sept 2026
by Nils Peterson I was on my way to a fun Improv class taught at my senior living quarters. I had been thinking about Leonard Bernstein’s remark “It’s all jazz” before I set out.
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza2 Sept 2026
Sam Jennings at The Hinternet: Let’s begin with an inconvenient truth: there’s really nothing new to be said about Revolver, just as there’s nothing new to be said about The Beatles themselves.
3 Quarks Dailyby Lei Wang2 Sept 2026
by Lei Wang Maple syrup is made by boiling down the much more watery maple sap, the stuff that actually comes from the trees and is only 2% sugar.
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Hall2 Sept 2026
by Christopher Hall About this time ten years ago, I was making a wreck of myself by paying an absurd amount of attention to the politics of a country I’m not even a citizen of.
3 Quarks Dailyby Ken MacVey1 Sept 2026
by Ken MacVey The preamble of the US Constitution famously begins with the phrase “We the People”. Who, and how many, constituted this self-identified group?
3 Quarks Dailyby Marianne Janack1 Sept 2026
by Marianne Janack When I ask people if they actually read all the things that they were assigned to read during their college education, they all tell me that they didn’t.
3 Quarks Dailyby Tim Sommers31 Aug 2026
by Tim Sommers In 2013, a team of researchers at MIT successfully implanted a false memory in mice of being shocked and then “reactivated” that implanted memory.
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Horner31 Aug 2026
by Christopher Horner The Puppet We are surrounded by things that act and speak as if they were human.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Dwarkesh Patel in his substack, Dwarkesh Podcast [h/t: Jeff Hall]: Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to...
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Wolfgang Streeck in Dublin Review of Books: Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World, by David Marsh, Yale University Press, 515 pp, £25, ISBN: 978 0300273007.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Fernando Rugitsky in Phenomenal World: The work of Arthur Lewis is one the best entry points for an engagement with classic development thinking.
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike Bendzela30 Aug 2026
by Mike Bendzela Anytime is a good time to take stock of what you think you know, or what you think you have actually learned, but once you have seen two-thirds to three-quarters of your life pass...
3 Quarks Dailyby TJ Price30 Aug 2026
by TJ Price I haven’t been writing lately. I’m fully aware that sometimes there are cycles to these things; that there’s no sense in feeling guilt or shame about it—and yet.
3 Quarks Dailyby Sean Murphy30 Aug 2026
by Sean Murphy i. While there is much to admire and recommend in the excellent documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, especially for young creatives or academics who want to better understand–and...
3 Quarks Dailyby ChatGPT28 Aug 2026
Editor’s Note by S. Abbas Raza: METR (pronounced “meter”) is a research nonprofit that scientifically measures whether and when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society.
3 Quarks Dailyby Anton Cebalo28 Aug 2026
by Anton Cebalo Kitsch has become so broad a category as to be often meaningless. Kitschy art and products of the past can easily be repackaged as trendy these days, and sincerity is blurred...
3 Quarks Dailyby Peter Topolewski28 Aug 2026
by Peter Topolewski The swirl might not be the most fitting euphemism for it any longer, the place where since the inception of ChatGPT nearly a third of web pages are “written” by AI.
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza27 Aug 2026
by Nigel Worthington A yearslong car theft epidemic in Canada has gotten so bad that, despite a police crackdown, thieves break into homes just to steal car keys.
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