The Theory of Everything - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Nils Peterson10d ago
by Nils Peterson Here is the longed-for Theory of Everything that we have sought since Einstein. Dreams Dreaming began 13 1/2 billion years ago with the big bang.
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top 4%The Eye Moves - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby TJ Price11d ago
by TJ Price Thursday afternoon—though it was early evening, already a septembric dusk—I found myself in a used bookstore somewhere distant from my normal routine and habit.
The Truth Is Out There: The Crop Circle Controversy - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Carol A Westbrook11d ago
by Carol A Westbrook This is the first time I’ve ever re-posted a 3 Quarks Daily article. I was led to re-examine the idea of visits by Aliens—particularly in the UFO phenomen—by two incidents.
What Makes a City (A Short Trip to Venice) - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Anton Cebalo11d ago
by Anton Cebalo I recently came back from a trip through a few cities along the Adriatic Sea after visiting my extended family.
Old Black Joe - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Steve Szilagyi13d ago
by Steve Szilagyi Here’s a song you don’t hear much anymore. Old Black Joe. It used to be really popular. I mean, really popular.
Three Takeaways, Number Two: We've Screwed The Pooch, Apparently - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike Bendzela13d ago
by Mike Bendzela From preface of Number One last month: 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...
Trust After Trump. What Comes Next? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Bill Murray13d ago
by Bill Murray The world of unquestioned American leadership is gone, and the next American president cannot restore the trust of America’s allies.
The Human Animal: Not that Weak and Not that Smart - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Thomas Fernandes14d ago
by Thomas Fernandes In this video, too grainy for even a screenshot, you can see 3 men walking up to a pride of about 15 lions while they are feeding on their kill.
On Grinding Meat - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Peter Topolewski14d ago
by Peter Topolewski Ram in choice cuts and scraps. Crank the handle. Ground meat comes out. Quite the invention, the meat grinder. Unless you’re the meat.
Of Fists and Fields: The Unlikely Sons of Manassa, Colorado - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark Harvey15d ago
by Mark Harvey On a hot Ohio day on July 4th, 1919, a young man named Jack Dempsey from the tiny town of Manassa, Colorado, stepped into the ring to fight Jess Willard, a boxer who was sixty pounds...
On Eating a Dog and Discovering the Meaning of Life - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Scott Samuelson15d ago
by Scott Samuelson Let me say upfront that I have nothing against dogs. In fact, I’ve loved certain dogs more than I’ve loved certain family members.
The Strategy Before the Strategy: Preparing for an Uncertain AI Future - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby ChatGPT16d ago
by ChatGPT-5.6 Sol and S. Abbas Raza What should a government do if artificial intelligence is advancing toward something vastly more capable than human beings, but nobody knows how fast it will...
Laughter, Forgetting, and Unbearable Lightness or, Why Milan Kundera (Still) Matters - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Sean Murphy16d ago
by Sean Murphy Does it tell us much—about the times we live in, about ourselves—that the occasion of Milan Kundera’s passing, at age 94 three years ago this summer, was not met with an outpouring...
Lord I miss the paper plane - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Dilip D'Souza16d ago
by Dilip D’Souza It’s been a breathless several days of chasing AI news, and there’s much more I haven’t got to.
An Economy Of Dunces - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Laurence Peterson17d ago
by Laurence Peterson Let’s just plan for catastrophic success. —Jared Kushner The present must certainly constitute one of the weirdest and most perverse economic conjunctures in my lifetime, maybe...
Four Hands: I Wrote This With an AI. Whether You Can Tell Is the Least Interesting Question - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jeremy Moss17d ago
Editor’s Note: This essay begins an ongoing series of columns experimenting with AI collaboration in writing.
Victory in Defeat - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese17d ago
Lily Lynch in Sidecar: The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre.
Sunday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny18d ago
Hatred See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape— our century’s hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
The Scientific Method Has Left the Building - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad18d ago
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad I recall reading a short piece of fiction as a high school student at the turn of the millenium called Catching Crumbs from the Table.
Where the Lost Cause Won - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Paweł Skała-Piękoś18d ago
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś The Polish noble republic as a laboratory for anyone who wants to imagine America under the Confederacy; and why a liberal owes no apology to those who call privilege freedom...