NYTIMES (Kenneth Chang) - Four Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medals
The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.
NPR (Planet Money) - The best economic ideas from around the world — Planet Money Summer School is back
Our free economics course for your ears is on a quest for great economics ideas.
Our free economics course for your ears is on a quest for great economics ideas.Open
NYTIMES (Tiffany Hsu) - Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.
NYTIMES (Ross Douthat, Victoria Chamberlin and Sophia Alvarez Boyd) - A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.
Making the case for a “useless” education.
NPR (Holly J. Morris) - This week's quiz reveals a dramatic twist! OR DOES IT?
If you keep up with secret identities, you'll get at least one question right this week!
If you keep up with secret identities, you'll get at least one question right this week!Open
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein and Kristin Lin) - Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.
NPR (Holly J. Morris) - Forget the State of the Union. What's the state of your quiz score?
What's the state of your union, quiz-wise? Find out!
What's the state of your union, quiz-wise? Find out!Open
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein) - What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein
His network may not have known everything, but it is hard to deny that many of them knew enough to know better.