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Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is getting a facelift. See renderings
A plan to overhaul the front entrance to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry gained approval on Thursday.
Bloomsburg Children’s Museum now accepting registrations for annual science fair
Students in grades 6-12 can now register for the Bloomsburg Children’s Museum’s 12th Annual Science Fair, which will be held in January.
How the Lucas Museum's epic battle for a home ended in L.A.
George Lucas' quest to find a permanent home for his namesake museum started more than 20 years ago and involved land battles in Chicago and San Francisco before the project landed in L.A.s Exposition Park.
Mission Historical Museum to Celebrate Día de los Muertos
The Mission Historical Museum will invite the community to celebrate culture, remembrance and tradition during its annual Día de los Muertos Folklife Festival on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026.
Inter hold key discussions for Federico Dimarco’s renewal
As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, new Inter sporting director Dario Baccin has met with Arturo Canales to discuss the future of Federico Dimarco.The two met at the Museo del Prado in Madrid for ...
BugFest 2026 set to celebrate 30 years of fun at NC Museum of Natural Sciences
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is gearing up for its biggest celebration yet as it marks the 30th anniversary of BugFest on Sept. 19.
Dancing at Rockaway Beach: Now That’s Entertainment
Eye-catching costumes? Eerie foghorns? For this year’s Beach Sessions, Alexa West shines a light on the bright and dark sides of American showbiz in “Amusement.”
New Exhibit Shows Where Sports And Science Meets
It's opening Soon At The Buffalo Museum of Science
Museum of Science's new Science Stadium exhibit connects science, sports
The Buffalo Museum of Science will capitalize on the region’s love of our local professional sports teams, and will also use the opportunity to teach about science and engineering through
Smithsonian pulls back the curtain on its political history archive
Each year, millions of visitors stream through the Smithsonian National Museum of American History – bearing witness to a trove of items documenting the country’s past. But only a fraction of the Smithsonian’s political archives is ever on display at one time.
Smithsonian pulls back the curtain on its political history archive
Each year, millions of visitors stream through the Smithsonian National Museum of American History – bearing witness to a trove of items documenting the country’s past. But only a fraction of the Smithsonian’s political archives is ever on display at one time.
Science Museum sets Vulcan salute world record for Star Trek at 60
The Science Museum hosted the record for the largest Vulcan salute on Star Trek Day.
ENTERTAINMENT: Museum’s Tinkerfest, various concerts on calendar
Okorie “OkCello” Johnson kicks off the 11th Acansa Arts Festival of the South, 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Morgan Hall of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Stella Boyle Smith Music Center.
Inside the Buzzy, Controversial Business of Artifact Jewelry
Do ancient artifacts have a place as jewelry, or only in museums? Jewelers and archaeologists weigh in.
Racing legend Jack Roush to auction off iconic cars, personal hot rods
Legendary engineering innovator and motorsports icon Jack Roush is putting cars from his museum collection up for auction for the first time.
Preserving the Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences is slatted to close at the end of the month. But can the the 200-year-old museum to be saved?
Museum of Discovery and Science, Broward libraries bring hands-on learning to communities
The Museum of Discovery and Science and Broward County Library are bringing hands-on learning and character development to communities across Broward County through Character Corners, an initiative inspired by MODS’ Build a Better World: The Future Begins with You exhibit.
Herbert Simon Family Foundation to present experimental creative showcase with ‘Risky Business’
A new “experimental creative showcase” is coming to the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) this fall thanks to the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
Buffalo Museum of Science Unveils $3 Million Science Stadium Permanent Exhibit in Partnership with the Bills, Sabres, and Bandits
Transformative, interactive exhibit merges Western New York’s deep passion for sports with STEM learning; Ribbon-cutting ceremony set for September 24 before September 26 public opening.
Buffalo Museum of Science Unveils $3 Million Science Stadium Permanent Exhibit in Partnership with the Bills, Sabres, and Bandits
Transformative, interactive exhibit merges Western New York’s deep passion for sports with STEM learning; Ribbon-cutting ceremony set for September 24 before September 26 public opening.
Buffalo Museum of Science unveils $3 million Science Stadium permanent exhibit in partnership with the Bills, Sabres, and Bandits
Transformative, interactive exhibit merges Western New York’s deep passion for sports with STEM learning; Ribbon-cutting ceremony set for Sept. 24 before Sept. 26 public opening.
Buffalo Museum of Science unveils $3 million Science Stadium permanent exhibit in partnership with the Bills, Sabres, and Bandits
Transformative, interactive exhibit merges Western New York’s deep passion for sports with STEM learning; Ribbon-cutting ceremony set for Sept. 24 before Sept. 26 public opening.
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum opens a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition after her death last month
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work, two weeks after the celebrated Japanese artist's death at 97 | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
The Lucas Museum's approach to curation courts controversy
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is challenging art-world hierarchies by placing commercial art, comics and pop culture works in conversation with pieces by Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and more.
Akron Art Museum unveils $12.5M renovation aimed at doubling attendance
Backed by a capital campaign and $2M in state funds, the Akron Art Museum's $12M expansion opens Sept. 23 with new galleries, a black box and expanded education space.
“Parachute science” is failing the tropics, home to more than 80% of insect species
Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers have developed a global framework to close this gap by combining scientific studies with museum collections, local expertise, citizen science, social media records, and new technologies.
Protesters rally against Academy of Natural Sciences closure
Protesters rallied outside the Academy of Natural Sciences Tuesday as the 198-year-old Philly museum prepares to close at the end of September.
Meta introduces Muse, a personal AI agent that can send emails, book travel
Meta on Tuesday unveiled personal AI agent Muse that can autonomously send emails, book travel on a person's behalf, sell a car and make payments.
At rally to save Academy of Natural Sciences museum, protesters urge Drexel to 'act like it's an emergency'
Local lawmakers and scientists outlined several options to preserve the museum, which is due to close Sept. 30.
Hundreds rally to protest the planned closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum
The crowd was decidedly intergenerational.
After the theft of 3 Renoir paintings from a French museum, here’s a look at other famous heists
Thieves have hit the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera and made off with four valuable paintings by the French impressionist master.
After the theft of 3 Renoir paintings from a French museum, here's a look at other famous heists
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After the theft of 3 Renoir paintings from a French museum, here's a look at other famous heists
Thieves have hit the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera and made off with four valuable paintings by the French impressionist master | 1080 WTIC NEWSTALK
Rally held to keep Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
Protesters held a rally Tuesday calling for officials to save the Academy of of Natural Sciences museum in Center City Philadelphia.
Smithsonian head Lonnie Bunch to retire amid Trump administration effort to reshape institution
Lonnie Bunch III said Tuesday that he will retire as the head of the Smithsonian Institution, a role that placed him at the center of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the world’s largest museum organization.
‘Antiques Roadshow’ appraisers coming to Fort Plain Museum
Leigh Keno and Joel Bohy of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” will offer appraisals during an Oct. 10 antiques show at the Fort Plain Museum.
Kamin Science Center and Science of Speed shut down for four-day refresh in Pittsburgh
Planning a trip to the Kamin Science Center this week? The museum will be closed through Friday for exhibit maintenance and updates.
2026 Ballon d’Or nominees: Full list revealed
The nominees have been revealed for the 2026 Ballon d'Or ahead of the award's presentation next month.Football's most prestigious individual award will be presented at a landmark ceremony, in what app...
NASA Sea Level Science Makes Waves on World Ocean Day
Explore This SectionScienceScience Activation1,000 Museum Visitors Dive… OverviewResourcesOpportunitiesCitizen ScienceHighlightsAbout Science
Champions League Matchday One: Four things to watch
The Champions League is back this week as Europe's elite begin their pursuit of club football's biggest prize.Matchday one brings blockbuster reunions, unwanted records and plenty of questions for som...
Kamin Science Center using multi-day closure to refresh exhibits on all floors
Officials say the museum is using the mid-week closure to refresh and maintain exhibits and visitor experience across all five floors.
Intercard is chosen by Family Entertainment Group for its strategic partnership with Topgolf
ST. LOUIS — Intercard is proud to announce that Family Entertainment Group, one of the nation’s premier developers and operators of entertainment experiences, will use Intercard’s cashless te…
1,000 Museum Visitors Dive Into NASA Sea Level Science on World Ocean Day
More than 1,000 visitors explored NASA sea level science firsthand during World Ocean Day at the University of Georgia Aquarium on Skidaway Island on June 6, 2026.
Six Flags Acquires Iconic ArieForce One, Bringing Fan-Favorite Roller Coaster Back to Life
/PRNewswire/ -- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE:FUN), North America's largest regional amusement-resort operator, has acquired ArieForce One, the...
Everything to know about Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
The highly anticipated $1-billion building opens Sept. 22. Learn more about its architecture, must-see experiences, rocky start and the questions surrounding "narrative art."
Protesters push to stop Academy of Natural Sciences from closing museum
A protest is set to take place outside the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to stop the closure of the museum.
'Animal Super Powers' exhibit with LEGO bricks coming to Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
The LEGO scene in Mississippi continues to grow, with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science's newest exhibit coming later this month and using the popular
Arizona Land Play Bets on Data Centers and Entertainment to Draw Capital West
Arizona Land Consulting plans a $6 billion to $10 billion Tonopah development mixing data centers, film studios, and an amusement park west of Phoenix.
The 9 exhibits you can’t miss this fall at Oregon museums
From a must-see art exhibit at the Portland Art Museum to OMSI's display of prehistoric monsters, here's what to catch at area museums this season.
Ranking the best debut goals in Premier League history
Ainsley Maitland-Niles had a dream debut for Everton at the weekend after a sublime stoppage-time strike rescued a result against Manchester United.Off the bench at Hill Dickinson Stadium, the deadlin...
Everton's unlikely new hero's journey to Merseyside
There was some bemusement among supporters when Everton announced the arrival of Ainsley Maitland-Niles, who has endured something of a nomadic career since making his professional debut for Arsenal in a Champions League tie against Galatasaray in 2014. Following the retirement of Seamus Coleman at the end of last season, Everton chief executive Angus Kinnear spoke about taking their time to find a replacement. When they eventually settled on Maitland-Niles, it was not the coup supporters had envisaged after a tedious, summer-long search.
Premier League Team of the Week: Our Best XI
The Premier League delivered another weekend of drama as the new season continued to take shape.Alexander Isak announced himself atLiverpool with a brilliant brace, while Arsenal's leading names stepp...
Fifty years of the Maison d’Ailleurs: a mecca for science fiction fans
From prison to sci-fi wonderland, Yverdon's Maison d’Ailleurs is more than a museum – it’s an adventure.
At the annual Pyramid Hill Art Fair, food and entertainment accompany more than 60 artisan booths
Creators and art lovers from across the southwest Ohio region are gearing up for Art Fair, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum’s annual signature event.
Letter: Science Museum is wrong to ‘capitulate’ to activists
From Sir John Rose, Former Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce PLC, London SW11, UK
The chemistry helping to unravel the Bayeux Tapestry’s secrets
As the Bayeux Tapestry comes to the British Museum, scientists reveal how chemistry and imaging technology are unlocking its hidden history
The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers
Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. It may actually cheer you up: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) [ Reading won’t save liberalism ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) Maibritt Henkel · Sep 1 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) It used to be bad to downplay climate change (if we mean denying its reality). Today, it’s actually good to downplay climate change (if we mean keeping the issue out of political fights so we can make real progress). This counterintuitive view is called “climate hushing,” and contributor Alex Trembath argued that it’s the key to enacting good policy going forward. Get up to speed on the latest in climate politics: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) [ We won’t stop climate change by talking about it ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Alex Trembath · Sep 2 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing up for the forces of liberalism against Donald Trump’s assault on our closest ally. So, why is one prominent left-wing commenter attacking Carney? Columnist Matthew Yglesias explains: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) [ When "economic liberty" means central planning ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) Matthew Yglesias · Aug 31 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) 🌟Abundance Wins of the Week🌟 Shout out to my home state of California, whose legislature passed two housing bills this week. One requires a housing density minimum in transit-oriented areas of the state’s most transit-rich cities (Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Long Beach). Another bill closes two common loopholes used by third parties to delay housing projects, including an opportunity to challenge maps of a given lot created by the developer after a project has been approved. Shout out to our big-state rival, Texas, where pro-housing SB 785 took effect this week. The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. Subscribe More to read: [ The Opening Argument ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite)[ Seeing like an elite ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) Kobe Yank-Jacobs · Sep 4 What do Americans hear when they watch Sen. Bernie Sanders or Vice President JD Vance rail against the elite? Are they thinking of right-wing tech billionaires? Imperious college professors? Liberal magazine writers? [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) [ The Weekly Scroll ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline)[ God is back on the timeline ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) Jeremiah Johnson · Sep 5 This week, we’re talking about Substack’s new religious debates, the continuing MAGA influencer scandal, how to retire from YouTube, and aura battles. [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??
Paul Tazewell costume exhibit to close after Monday at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
This weekend is the last to see some incredible costumes from movies and Broadway musicals, all created by award-winning fashion and costume designer Paul Tazewell.
BCM to feature radio personality Dallas Wayne
BRISTOL — Join the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. for their next Speaker Session featuring musician and radio personality Dallas Wayne.
Close to science
Visitors view a scale model of the escapement mechanism for a Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) hydro?mechanical astronomical and time?keeping device at an exhibition at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing on September 6, 2026. Since 2025, September has been designated as China’s annual National Science Popularization Month. Photo: VCG
Science Sunday: Bringing the bike
Science Central shows us how the Wire Bike at the museum will work.
Museum of Chelmsford taxidermy bear helps tackle wildlife crime
Hayden Leigh, a forensic science graduate, is studying the hair of Boris the bear.
A researcher at a Chengdu university was bitten on the ring finger by a grass-green pitviper from Mount Emei at 22:15 on a September night, the swelling reached his elbow before he reached hospital, and the snake has now been named a species new to science, described partly from museum specimens collected in 1956 and from populations that had been identified as a more widespread relative on their looks alone
The Huaxi green pitviper was described in January 2026 from western Sichuan, where the region's green pitvipers had been called Trimeresurus stejnegeri on morphology alone. A 171-sample genetic survey of that species had skipped the region entirely.
From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history
The spectacular rise in the price of gold over the past nine years has triggered a wave of increasingly violent heists at European museums, which are struggling to protect themselves
Las Vegas families attend STEM Saturday at Atomic Museum
STEM Saturday sessions filling up fast at Atomic Museum
Alexander Zverev Has a Highway to the US Open Semifinal
The bracket gods have been extraordinarily generous to Alexander Zverev at the 2026 US Open. Lorenzo Musetti, who held a 3-2 head-to-head advantage over him and was seeded 13th, went out to Australian wildcard Dane Sweeny before they could meet. Alex de Minaur, the sixth seed and one of the most annoying players to play …
ENTERTAINMENT: Hot Springs’ Muses set old and new ‘Standards’
The Muses Project's touring fall concert, "Broken Standards," bridging 150 years of early Western European music with early 20th-century American jazz standards, opens with a student show, 6 p.m. Monday at the Muses Cultural Arts Center.
Movie studio, amusement park planned for huge site near Phoenix
A prominent local real estate investor has unveiled a plan for a development an hour west of Phoenix that could include a movie production studio.
Supporters and fans rally to protest closing of Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Science Museum
The nearly 200-year-old museum is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas.
Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro headlines Lakeland fundraiser
Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro headlined a private fundraiser for a political committee held at The AGB Museum in Lakeland on Sept. 2.
Norwich's forgotten clock to go on loan to London Science Museum
It has been hidden away in storage for more than a decade.
Museum of Discovery names Josh Annett as executive director
The Museum of Discovery announced Friday (Sept. 4) that Josh Annett will serve as executive director. Annett has been part of Museum of Discovery for more than 14 years and...
Crowds visit Academy of Natural Sciences museum weeks before closure
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America’s oldest natural history museum will close by the end of the month
Here’s your last day to visit
With Academy of Natural Sciences closing, STEM professionals worry about impact on students
When Atiyah Harmon brought her group from Black Girls Love Math to the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum last year, the students got a chance to see the possibilities of
Closing a 200-year-old institution will wound both the city and science
The oldest museum of its kind in the nation, it has inspired generations of science enthusiasts. Drexel must find a way to preserve it, writes a Philadelphia-area science journalist.
The Academy of Natural Sciences’ museum closure: what we know
Philly’s beloved Academy of Natural Sciences’ museum is closing at the end of the month. Here’s how the government, organizations and public have gotten involved in the discourse
Michael Bloomberg Gives $155 Million to Museum of Science, Boston for New Civic Wing
Michael Bloomberg has donated $155 million to the Museum of Science, Boston through Bloomberg Philanthropies, funding a new public venue designed to bring... Read More
Trump administration says agencies may stop working with the Smithsonian
The Trump administration has suggested federal agencies may stop working with the Smithsonian Institution if its leadership does not change, ramping up a monthslong pressure campaign to align the world’s largest museum complex with its views.
Free arts, cultural experiences this fall in Linn County
Fifteen arts and cultural organizations will participate in a weeklong “Free for All” event this fall offering free admission, tours and performances at venues ranging from the Cedar Rapids Museum
Entertainment briefs | ‘4 Cool Bands’ perform at Arcata Playhouse
“SoniX at the Graves,” an immersive sound experience, is slated for Sept. 13 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka.
Poll: Next steps for Philly's natural science museum
Take our poll and let us know what you think should be done with one of the city's most prized institutions.
Philadelphia leaders work to preserve Academy of Natural Sciences as museum prepares to close
The effort is focused on preserving the academy's research, education and public engagement missions, according to David Cohen, an attorney and former U.S. ambassador to Canada who has joined the effort.
George Lucas on opening Lucas Museum: ‘This one almost broke my will’
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art co-founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson spoke Wednesday at the press preview for the new museum. "This one almost broke my will," Lucas said.
Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing. Here's what to see while you can
The Academy’s museum is known for its unique exhibits, education and firsts in the Philly area. We listed some highlights about the first institution of natural history in America.
Lucas Museum among L.A.’s boldest, most contradictory buildings
Synthetic yet organic, populist yet elitist, the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is full of contradictions. Highlights include an extraordinary park, cascading waterfall, structural feats and unique vantages. But the galleries leave much to be desired.
Inside the gutsy, defiant Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
By discarding artistic hierarchy of any kind, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is stepping into an ongoing debate about what kind of work gets to be labeled "art."
Lacking Visitors, 200-Year-Old Science Landmark to Close
Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences museum will shut its doors Sept. 30
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Museums for fall 2026: Science at the MSI, women all-stars at Art Institute and the annual architecture Open House
Whether you like architecture, history, science or maybe bugs, museums around the Chicago area have your thing this fall.
Chomp the Block returns, Lauren Groff with Marlon James at Heartwood
Looking for something to do this week in Gainesville/Alachua County? Check out Chomp The block, the Matheson Museum, live music in Gainesville and Alachua.
Behind the scenes at the Science Museum of Minnesota
(ABC 6 News) – In this edition of Must See Museums, we take a look behind the curtain at the more than two million artifacts and specimens that don’t make it on to the museum floor.To go on an insider tour yourself, click here.Watch the video above for more.
Academy of Natural Sciences museum to close after nearly 200 years
The board said the move to shutter the museum, which was founded in 1828, follows an extensive process aimed at strengthening the academy for the future.
Academy of Natural Sciences' museum is set to close this month
It's a massive and unexpected blow to Philadelphia's cultural scene, which will lose a major institution and tourist destination.
Fernbank Museum gala to honor Teresa M. Finley
Fernbank Museum of Natural History will host its annual fundraising gala, A Timeless Affair, on Saturday, Oct. 3, bringing together Atlanta’s philanthropic, business and civic communities for an evening of
Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing
The Academy will continue scientific research and public education, but its museum will go the way of the dinosaur.
11 celebrities who weren’t amused by their ‘SNL’ impressions
Not every celebrity is flattered by an ‘SNL’ impression. EW looks back at 11 stars who made it clear they weren’t in on the joke.