How are we humans able to comprehend abstract concepts like unicorns, assign them value, and somehow stay grounded enough in the physical world to transform those abstract values into physical reality? Converting values and goals into reality is what brains are for Continue

Xavier Becerra will succeed Gavin Newsom as the next governor of California after emerging from a chaotic primary and then cruising past Republican rival Steve Hilton, according to The Associated Press. Continue

What the voter records of California’s billionaires reveal. For years, the country’s richest people have wielded a growing influence on the direction and outcome of its politics. In California, this year has supercharged that trendline. But who, in fact, are they? Continue

At the end of the last ice age, approximately 11,700 years ago, the Earth entered an unusual interval of climatic stability. Within its relatively settled climate, human beings would plant fields, build cities, and begin to write down what they knew. Continue

Scholars working in the social sciences cannot produce anything like laws and theories. This doesn’t mean social scientists are failures, only that they lack some of the tools of the natural sciences. Continue

The testosterone tumult has infiltrated the highest levels of government. At a White House press conference in October 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the average American teenager has “50 percent of the testosterone as a sixty-five-year-old man”—a claim that runs completely counter to... Continue

Can GLP-1 Drugs Extend Lifespan? The Jury Is Still Out, Researchers and drug developers weigh in on if GLP-1 drugs, like semaglutide, have real potential as longevity medicines. Continue

Over the past year or so, popular media has documented a growing number of cases of what psychiatrists have dubbed “ AI psychosis.” The term describes instances in which large language models (LLMs) reinforce and even elaborate on delusional beliefs in users who are suffering... Continue

‘Vibes’ and ‘intuitions’ are often dismissed both in daily life and in academic enquiry as irrational or merely heuristic devices. And while we cannot always trust such reactions, they are central, indeed indispensable, to our ability to rationally navigate the world. Continue