Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Mystery of What We Are“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.”
The Fear and the FixAs the automobile-clogged city of Los Angeles saw its smog problem worsen through the 1960s, Californians had ample reason to worry about environmental pollution.
A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid WritingI am walking along a shoreline. A shoreline is a place, a geography, where two elements—water and sand—meet. We call this place of meeting a line, but it is also the continual erasing of line. How water writes, erases, rewrites. Its own delineation of: the encounter.
Pig-organ transplants: what three human recipients have taught scientistsLast week, the first living person to receive a kidney from a pig died, just under two months after his transplant — sooner than his doctors had expected. But the timing is in keeping with that of the first people to receive pig hearts, both of whom died around two months after their transplants.
Deep Dive into LlaMA 3 by Hand ✍️“In the rugged mountain of the Andes, lived three very beautiful creatures — Rio, Rocky and Sierra. With their lustrous coat and sparkling eyes, they stood out as a beacon of strength and resilience.
My Boyfriend Is Constantly Defending a Despicable Man. I Can’t Take It Anymore.Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. My partner and I have been together for 14 years, and we love each other very much.
A Brief History of the World’s First PlanetariumIn 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?
The Other Side of the RiverFour men stood precariously, supported by outstretched hands, on a rickety metal barricade. All around them, a sea of protesters squeezed shoulder to shoulder. They were gathered near al-Kalouty Mosque, in Amman.
Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.It takes a lot of energy to grow a baby — just ask anyone who has been pregnant. But scientists are only now discovering just how much.
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespreadAndrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream — onto store shelves.
'I thought they hated me' – Lyon on Ashes, Lancashire and BazballNathan Lyon was heartbroken, but wishes he'd allowed himself the time to take it all in. Ten months ago, the Australia off-spinner was limping down the Lord's pavilion steps and into Ashes folklore, his calf shredded and his series over.
Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch PhaseA changing of the guard in space stations is on the horizon as private companies work towards providing new opportunities for science, commerce, and tourism in outer space.
Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over AgainStarting another company is like asking a seasoned marathon runner to lace up their shoes, turn around and tackle another 26.2 miles — it takes an extraordinary level of determination and perseverance.
Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Are Unraveling the Mysteries of His Deafness and IllnessesGerman composer Ludwig van Beethoven began losing his hearing in his 20s, a fact that deeply upset and embarrassed him. Over the years, his hearing loss worsened, and by the time he died at age 56 in 1827, the composer was totally deaf.