For years I've predicted that the tipping point for autonomous vehicles will arrive on an actuary's spreadsheet. Once insurers accumulate enou…

From my Cooking the World series... A sangria-meets-clericó macerated fruit salad for the 2026 World Cup Final Serves: 10 Total time: ~30 minutes ac…

Right now, sitting wherever you are, you're surrounded by things you cannot perceive. Radio waves from a dozen stations are passing through your b…

One of my few real regrets in life is choosing to go to an almost entirely engineering school. I got a first-rate education in thermodynamics and reac…

The New York Times just published another installment of its focus challenge series: an ultra-high-resolution photograph of the Grand Central Terminal…

There's a strange pattern in how people respond when asked whether large language models are genuinely intelligent. Regular people shrug and say y…

I came across the paper behind this post through Azeem Azhar's Exponential View newsletter, in a short item noting that AI-native startups start s…

We're closing out a month-long trip through Malta, Crete, and Rhodes, and Rhodes turned out to be the island where the history is so dense it'…