Chapter 3 of the National Academies report on AIxBio: Biosecurity implications for what AI can and can't do in biology today.

When people ask where the Appalachian Mountains are, they are really asking where one of North America’s oldest backbones runs beneath maps and highways and river valleys. The Appalachians are not a single peak or a single park. They are a long, folded highland system that shadows the eastern side of the continent from the Canadian Atlantic almost to the Gulf of Mexico. Geographers usually begin the story in the northeast.

Steven Zaillian’s Ripley (2024), available on Netflix, arrives with the familiar signals of prestige adaptation: a canonical literary source (Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley), European locations, meticulous production design, and a controlled tonal palette. Yet one of its most distinctive features is not narrative content but tempo.

Timing does often seem to be everything, particularly when there is a very limited foreknowledge of events.

What do television shows look like in our mind’s eye? Let me start with a personal experience. Two shows that I enjoyed immensely – Sex Education and The Mandalorian – seemed, to me at least, to have reached satisfying conclusions in their third and second seasons, respectively. But not in the same way.

In early 2025 a Reddit meme emerged featuring the producer/influencer Rick Rubin, eyes closed, seemingly lost in something deep, truthy and intuitive in his headphones, with the neologism “LettingTheVibes BeYourGuide” as its caption.[1] This briefly became an image metonym for vibe coding – the act of using LLMs to help the… The post Vibe coding the future appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

The Insurrection of the Resurrection The trial for pessimism transforms ecological consciousness into psychological pathology rather than ontological access. When one attempts to confront the irremediable—extinction without-remainder, the closure of all future testimony—this confrontation is often reframed as personal despair.

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We examine what generated crisis discussions, how they tended to unfold, and how they were resolved. And we derive some lessons from history for the current replication crisis.

This article first appeared at dataindex.us on 2/5/2026 and was cross-posted today as a guest post to the Data Rescue Project. Yesterday, the CIA made the surprising decision to shut down the World Factbook after more than sixty years of operation. This move was not just a simple website update.