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• What Can't A.I. Do? Quite a Lot, Actually

  NYT columnist David Brooks makes a list of uniquely human skills that students should develop in college

• Have any of Earth’s creatures stopped evolving?

• What are white holes, and do they really exist?

  In General Relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

• Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways

  Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones -- which weren’t thought to exist in bacterial cells.

• On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 2

  REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022).