3 Quarks Daily

3 Quarks Daily is a digital platform that serves as both a news aggregator and a blog. It gathers insightful commentary, essays, and multimedia from a variety of sources, including newspapers, journals, and blogs. The site emphasizes topics like literature, the arts, politics, current events, science, philosophy, and even entertainment, along with "anything else we find intriguing," as mentioned on their website. From Tuesday to Sunday, the site features around a dozen curated items from across the internet. Each Monday is dedicated to an online magazine that showcases essays and fresh content from editors and guest writers. The goal of 3 Quarks Daily is to provide “a one-stop intellectual surfing experience” by collecting quality content and making it accessible in one location. Additionally, 3 Quarks Daily honors outstanding writing in the blogosphere with annual awards known as “quarks.” They also host quarterly online discussions focused on global topics. The blog has a large following, with readers engaging through email subscriptions, RSS feeds, and social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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Poem by Jim Culleny

3 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Jim Culleny

By Jim Culleny A Cornucopia of Elegiesas clear as time when the air was green and tenderfeet knew the ballet of beginning,a tern-like teen on one leg in the surf of a sea, a swift on a draft of blinks in the hour ofsomeday-but-not-now- . time is a cornucopia of elegies, the master of poets complicit since the word became flesh . . Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
A.O. Scott's Poetry Lessons

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Jonathan Farmer at Slate:For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation's most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times' interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time. Scott isn't coming to poetry as a true outsider. He finished all the coursework and exams for a Ph.D. in literature, and he was a literary critic before he started writing about movies.
Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Joseph Howlett in Quanta:Her lens is category theory, a way of stepping back from the specifics of any individual field in favor of a broader underlying framework that bridges all of them. By thinking of language as a mathematical category, she's been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights.
Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz on Columbia's Capitulation to Trump

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza
This desire to watch the world burn doesn't come out of nowhere

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Dannagal G. Young and Kevin Arceneaux in The Conversation:When political psychologists introduced this concept of "need for chaos" in 2021, they described it not as a psychological trait, but as a character adaptation that occurs when some people experience a cultural and political situation that makes them feel like they are losing status and power.
Friday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Jim Culleny

Political Speech Democracy in America, she said, has always been aspirational, the bronze bell of its summons rung by noble oligarchs with blood on their soft white hands- which is not to say that Democracy in America isn't inspirational, isn't a flickering beacon above some battered shore awash in bodies- in fact, it's always both- the opened arms, the double- locked gate-which leaves us here together, always separate, never equal, mouthing the words for breakfast, spitting them out before...
The lonely life of a glyph-breaker

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco in Aeon:I am a glyph-breaker. I confess. Guilty as charged. A glyph-breaker who didn't break anything, and that is quite paradoxical, because, to be a true glyph-breaker, you should have deciphered an undeciphered script, like Jean-François Champollion (the founder of Egyptology, who decoded the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs), Henry Rawlinson (who gave us the key to cuneiform) or Michael Ventris (who deciphered Linear B). Well, I didn't. But I tried. I still try, in a way.
How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

M. Anthony Mills in The New Atlantis:As with so many other scientific controversies in our political life, public opinion on Covid origins has come to track - and serve as a signifier for - partisan identity. This bodes ill for dispassionate investigation, which we must have if we want to know the truth about what actually threw the world into chaos for years and killed 27 million people.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's Vision for AI's Future

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza
Harvard fights back against Trump

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Amanda Marcotte at Salon:"The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights," Harvard President Alan Garber declared in a public letter.