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Aeon+Psyche
What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · 360 saves · Jan 26th · I travelled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people
Quanta Magazine
Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · 269 saves · Feb 18th · Anil Ananthaswamy · The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn't work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could.
The Atlantic
The Stories I Didn’t Learn in School
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 107 saves · Feb 9th · Clint Smith · The accounts of ordinary people who survived slavery provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
The New York Times
After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
The New York Times
8 min read · 65 saves · Jan 30th · Michael Wines · The presidential election results are settled. But the battle over new voting rules, especially for mail-in ballots, has just begun.