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There are parts of London that everyone knows the name of. They appear in novels by Dickens, films, news headlines, and Fodor's travel guides. You can mention their name and people say, oh yes, even if they have never been there. And then there are places like Kenton....
By Tim Brinkhof One night, while backpacking in Guatemala, I was woken up by a pain in my leg. Nearly bumping my head against the upper bunk of the hostel bed, I pulled away the blanket only to find nothing. Confused, I tried going back to sleep, but couldn’t. The...
There is a popular belief that running a casino must be the easiest business in the world. After all, the games are rigged in your favor. Not secretly, not dishonestly, but mathematically, openly, and with great precision. Take roulette. In its European form, there is...
My father ran an antiques business in England in the 1960s, which was a time when the nation collectively decided that the contents of its attics might be worth more than the houses themselves, a belief encouraged by a small industry of books with titles that sounded...
By Jasmine Sun Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I live in San Francisco, among the young researchers earning million-dollar salaries and the start-up founders competing to build the...
By Brett J. Goldstein Anthropic recently sent a shock wave through the cybersecurity world when it said its new artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos, had exhibited an extraordinary ability to find previously unknown vulnerabilities in software — a hacker’s...
There are certain places in the world that acquire an importance entirely out of proportion to their size, population, or apparent usefulness, and the Falkland Islands fall into that category. About thirty-five hundred civilian inhabitants, too many sheep to count,...
By Luke Barnes, On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day, had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In...
By Raffi Krikorian Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, would not be released to the public, after the company learned it was capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that have gone undetected in...
By Ryan Hesketh On March 3 2026, US Southern Command, the military unit overseeing operations in Central and South America, announced via X that “decisive action” had been taken against “domestic terror organisations” in Ecuador to combat “illicit drug trafficking”....
By Advisory Board staff In 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel — a prominent health policy expert, medical ethicist, and oncologist — wrote an infamous article in The Atlantic called "Why I Hope to Die at 75." Now, just seven years from his 75th birthday, Emanuel speaks with The...
By Moisés Naím Venezuela may soon experience something it has not seen in years: a surge of economic growth and activity. Although the removal of President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces in January left his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, in place, it has nonetheless opened...
There was a moment around 1980 when the world seemed to run on two channels of reality at once. On the evening news the announcer spoke in grave tones about the American hostages held in Tehran after the seizure of the U.S. embassy in the Iran hostage crisis. The...
By Will Glovinsky A story has been going around about artificial intelligence for the past decade: At some point, AI advances, robots and self-driving cars will throw countless people out of work. The rich folks who control AI companies will get richer. Most other...
By Elias Aboujaoude Birthrates are collapsing across the developed world, and the numbers are stark enough to unsettle most demographers. Nearly three‑quarters of humanity already live in countries with fertility at sub-replacement levels, according to the United...
Charlie woke up late on Good Friday, which would not normally require explanation except that in Cuenca, Good Friday means Semana Santa is in full swing, the construction crew on the lot next door has taken the week off, and the particular form of alarm clock I have...
There is something almost touching about a judge asking a simple question and getting no answer. Not a philosophical answer, not a constitutional answer, just a practical one. How, exactly, are you going to do this? That was the tone of US Supreme Court Justice Brett...
By Cal Newport Today we take for granted that diet and exercise are vitally important for our health and well-being. But we didn’t always think this way. Much of this awareness emerged in a remarkably short time during the middle of the last century. In 1955,...
There are moments in history when the world’s accountants quietly rearrange the furniture and everyone else spends the next fifty years living with the consequences. One of those moments took place in July 1944 in a grand old resort hotel in the mountains of New...
In the heatwave summer of 1665, as the Great Plague of London tightened its grip on a city that still believed disease traveled by miasma, misfortune, or divine displeasure, a splendid practical solution presented itself. When a household was diagnosed with bubonic...
Week of September 06
U.S. sinkings of Ecuadorian fishing vessels trigger court scrutiny after 28 crew members are released.
Cuenca targets a November launch for its first new international link to Chiclayo.
Exports hit a quarterly record, but Ecuador’s import bill is rising even faster.
