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Lee Alan Dugatkin's account of how a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt — and ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation — is out on SEPTEMBER 8! Learn more/pre-order here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054546/…

"The Hypocrisy Trap" looks at how our desire to stamp out hypocrisy is backfiring—and how learning to target our criticisms better can improve our politics, business, & personal relationships. "Bracing, insightful, and quietly optimistic." —@DanielPink mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050944/…

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come. wired.com/story/inventin…

New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📙

It was a pleasure to sit down with @carlorovelli for this conversation. Thanks to @berggruenInst and @FuturologyPod.

"Even if that quack doctor could add five years to your life, what would be the point? You’ve wasted the past 30 in a perpetual state of health anxiety." spectator.com/article/longev…

Congratulations to @BurelAnna for being selected as the Adult Factual Runner Up at this year’s V&A Illustration Awards for her work on “Conceiving Histories” by Isabel Davis! 🏆

ICYMI: This one is now available! A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553865/…

"Leah Stokes, maybe our leading expert on utilities, played a huge role in getting the IRA through and tells that story in a book called 'The Carbon Wave.' It’s a great insider political account, and it’s also a beautiful story..." —Bill McKibben nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opi…

"The alternative to law is not necessarily chaos. The alternative to law is power. Unchecked brute power." Hear @Harvard_Law's @ANatapoff on @AlVuona's @WICN905 show, The Public Eye, discussing AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Years of Law and Governance. bit.ly/44prKVr @mitpress

Big news: We're very pleased to announce a distribution partnership with @mitpress. All our books will be widely available as part of the MIT catalogue. Beginning on September 1, you'll be able to walk into nearly any bookstore and put in an order for Ill Will Editions books.

"Philosophy is awkwardly turning back into something that Socrates would have recognised—a subject in which humans engage directly with other humans about exciting ideas." The latest from Nicholas Agar, author of "How to be Human in the Digital Economy": abc.net.au/religion/what-…

“AI overtaking us in intelligence lays bare the massive category error we have made in increasingly defining ourselves by our intelligence.” —@ariannahuff noemamag.com/ais-greatest-g…

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build spklr.io/6016EPGem

In which Jill Lepore calls Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort's edited collection "OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023" an "engrossing collection": newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

"Is preventing the deaths of Black mothers and babies compelling? In a recent lawsuit, a conservative legal organization answers this question with a brutal 'no.'" The latest from Khiara Bridges, author of "Expecting Inequity": thehill.com/opinion/health…

"The embrace of apocalyptic rhetoric by much of the tech industry leadership feeds into people’s fear that AI will take away all the jobs. It’s not really a message that I would’ve run with if I wanted people to adopt my tool." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-the-classr…

"[Wisnioski] has shown how the word 'innovation' became a watchword transcending professional and political boundaries — at first blandly and self-evidently positive, but more recently surprisingly controversial." milkenreview.org/articles/every…

Let’s learn about Cabo Verde’s (and Haiti’s) paths toward sovereignty — beyond the World Cup instagram.com/p/Dadow1CCfdR/… @mit @mitpress @CaboVerde_Gov @PresidenciaCV @AbelDjassi @fcfcomunica @fhfhaiti @TiJanBosal

From evolution’s first mutations to the rise of synthetic genomics, we are charting life the way Magellan once mapped Earth. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/biological-bab…