Driverless cars have the potential to substantially reduce the death toll from likely the most dangerous everyday activity in American life: driving. So it might surprise you to know that the very people who are working to make transportation safer, more pleasant, and more humane are actually pretty divided on them.  That is because if […]

Readers and audiences have been falling in love with British romance stories for centuries. Books by authors like the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen still fly off the shelves, and they’ve been adapted for the big and small screen dozens of times. Wuthering Heights alone has been adapted over 30 times, and director Emerald Fennell’s […]

America’s AI industry isn’t just divided by competing interests, but also by conflicting worldviews. In Silicon Valley, opinion about how artificial intelligence should be developed and used — and regulated — runs the gamut between two poles. At one end lie “accelerationists,” who believe that humanity should expand AI’s capabilities as quickly as possible, unencumbered […]

One thing was clear before James Talarico’s win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate Democratic primary Tuesday night. This contest wouldn’t be about policy or ideology; it would be a choice between two very different types of “fighters,” decided along racially polarized lines.  Talarico, a state representative and seminarian, offered grit paired with […]

Puzzle enthusiasts’ pleasure is measured in the smallest of details: the exact shade of pink on a peony’s petal, a small sliver of a man’s plaid shirt, the tiniest glint of sunlight reflecting off a wave’s crest. It’s in the knowledge that every piece has a proper place, and the idea that seemingly infinite chaos […]