Six justices, five techniques: writing lessons from the 2025-26 term

Take the dense statutory scheme in Bowe v. United States. The court had to grapple with the government’s argument that one ...

No Pseudonymity for U Michigan Student Challenging Discipline for Using "Assertedly 'Fake' … Medical Note" "to Obtain an Accommodation"

From yesterday's decision by Judge Laurie J. Michelson (E.D. Mich.) in Doe v. Regents of Univ. of Mich.: Plaintiff, ...

Comma Mischief from the Florida District Court of Appeal

Blog readers know that I'm interested in legal language, and that includes punctuation (see, e.g., "Punctuation Matters. At the ...
Reuters

US to revive rule that could deny green cards to immigrants using public benefits

July 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. government is reviving a rule that could deny permanent residency to immigrants who use public benefits such as food stamps ‌and Medicaid, the Department of Homeland ...
Phys.org

'Check your ingredients': A new blueprint for using Fermi's 'Golden Rule'

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi ...
Yale Environment 360

‘Check your ingredients’: A new blueprint for using Fermi’s ‘Golden Rule’

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, there is Fermi’s Golden Rule. Named for 20th century Italian-American physicist Enrico ...
Entrepreneur

Students Are Increasingly Using AI to Cheat — And Getting Away With It

Students are bypassing AI detectors by using tools to make their text sound convincingly human. AI detectors are unreliable, with high rates of both false positives and false negatives, making it ...
The Atlantic

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, ...
E&E

Texas debates grid rule changes to connect data centers

The Public Utility Commission and grid managers are discussing ways to handle large projects while balancing costs and reliability. Texas electricity regulators weighed major rule changes Friday as ...
Lifehacker

How the 3-3-3 Rule Helped Me Stick to an Exercise Routine

If you've ever started a new workout routine with the best intentions only to find yourself skipping sessions by week two, you're not alone. I'm the type to get trapped in the same cycle of burnout, ...
Christianity Today

To Write Well Is Human

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...
The Conversation

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...