Foreign Language Education, Muon Collider, and Video Game Actors
Does AI portend the end of foreign language education?
People feel older from just a few nights of broken sleep.
Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy.
Why school absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere:
An accelerator known as a muon collider could revolutionize particle physics—if it can be built.
Topologists tackle the trouble with poll placement.
Social media and surgeons.
An abrupt break in thought:
The em dash, often simply called the dash, is the most commonly used and most versatile of the dashes. Em dashes are used to set off an amplifying or explanatory element and in that sense can function as an alternative to parentheses (third and fourth examples), commas (fifth and sixth examples), or a colon (first and second examples)—especially when an abrupt break in thought is called for.
Models all the way down (understanding generative AI).
Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents?
Notes on El Salvador.
Beijing’s new library has the world’s biggest reading room:
How AI is affecting video game actors.
Nigerian album cover archive.
Gen Z is becoming the toolbelt generation.
Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing.
Business schools are going all-in on AI.
Substack is setting writers up for a Twitter-style implosion.
What would society look like if extreme wealth were impossible?
Terra is a built-it-yourself device designed to allow its owner to wander without getting lost (neat concept!).