1. "Claire [Weiner] was one of the first babies born during the Manhattan Project; the address on her birth certificate was a post office box."

2. Starnone as Ferrante?

3. Jason Furman on the infrastructure bill.

4. New theory suggests large blobs of material in Earth's mantle are remnants of protoplanet Theia.

5. Obstacles to monoclonal antibodies, and for no good reason (NYT).

6. Wolfram on consciousness.