Guest host Tyler Cowen speaks with Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s top science and technology adviser, about the White ...

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A computer is the most limited yet universal structure of knowledge, one that builds up an inorganic, discrete world ...

What are the top two needs of your college district, and how are you prepared to address them? (Please answer in 200 words or fewer.) The most pressing need is at Saddleback College. The district’s ...

Big issues abound in this month’s books, as we batten down the hatches against El Niño and the known unknowns out there. Luckily, here in our snug bunker, we have plenty of other things to think about ...

Fans of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, rejoice: this month, there’s a new novel out from the mighty Becky Chambers, and it sounds great. Set on the planet Fortune, where a poisonous atmosphere ...

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Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures ...

An education expert sees peril where Silicon Valley sees progress. A political scientist feels new pressure to help pass climate legislation after becoming a parent. A grad student’s worldview changes ...