Where Is Judit Polgár Now? How the ‘Queen of Chess’ Became the Youngest Grandmaster and Changed Chess Forever

The Netflix documentary ‘Queen of Chess’ follows the career of groundbreaking women’s player Judit Polgár. Learn about her ...

A Loving Biography of the Photographer Who Made Poetry With His Pictures

André Kertész, who died in 1985 at the age of 91, is now enshrined as a pioneering figure of modern photography — a development that would have been almost impossible to imagine when paging through ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel

Tiszaeszlár: The Aftermath of a Modern Blood-libel Trial

If riots were Tiszaeszlár’s immediate aftermath, the long-term aftermath was quieter, more corrosive: silence hardening into ...
Mountain Xpress

Asheville Poetry Review’s founder reflects on journal’s finale and his difficult new chapter

APR has also created opportunities for poets and editors on the other side of the publishing process. Asheville poet and ...
MIT Technology Review

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

OTT releases this week (4-9 February 2026): Kis Kis Ko Pyaar Karun, The Raja Saab and other movies and series to stream on JioHotstar, Netflix, Zee5 and more

The coming week is packed with fresh OTT releases, offering something for every kind of viewer. From edge-of-the-seat ...
Baseball Prospectus

PECOTA Projections

Download the 2026 PECOTA Percentiles spreadsheet (Super-premium membership required. Premium members will be able to download the spreadsheet starting February 10 ...
EDN

Self-correcting codes conquer noise, part one: Viterbi codecs

FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...