This Week’s Selections
The Urgency of Interpretability (link)
How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart (link)
Pale Blue Dot (link)
In Japan, a Rice Shortage (link)
Death of a Chicken (link)
Flashback: Death of a Pig (link)
Other Items of Note
Death of a dog (link)
Death of a whale (link)
Death of an elephant (link)
Life of a hummingbird (link)
The fate of mule bureaucrats (link)
“When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?” (link)
The scientists who’ve seen a new color (link)
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