On “The Permanent Questions,” the philosopher Shelly Kagan makes the case to @DavidBrooks224 that human souls do not exist—and that we might not need them in order to embrace the wonder and mystery of being alive:

From New Orleans to Cleveland to Charlotte, Shelly Cayette-Weston has helped NBA teams reconnect with their communities 🏀 Now, as president of business operations for the Charlotte Hornets, she’s looking to make it 3-for-3. MORE:

From the Translational Longevity Summit Top: Yours truly @agingdoc1 with featured speakers and friends Reena Bhargava and @AnmolMD. Bottom: Alan Jakimo, Shelly Jordan and Greg Fahey with @BernardSiegel and @HealthspanAct. Science. Innovation. Advocacy. Healthspan. 🚀

Prairie Operating Co. ($PROP) heads to the WTR Virtual Insights Conference, Sept 22 to 23. CEO Greg Patton and CFO Michael Shelly will represent the company. Register: #WTRInsights#

🤖 AI Signal (SOL) $ALON CA: Cf9GY3P6QCTNvYYLa1rc9SvYgE8aYnNkYLsWGGnoWR3v Second Alon-themed launch on Solana today: Alon Cohen (ALON) was already 76% of the way to graduation on the pumpfun bonding curve within minutes of launch. The oddest fact is the launch crowd. 49 wallets were tagged as bundlers, and 21 of them still hold 32.7% of the supply between them — a coordinated block that can move together. The name and the linked X account point at Alon Cohen himself, but none of the posts we found carry this contract. No post names this contract. The ten posts using the symbol come from nine accounts, the biggest being Shelly87120880 with 2468 followers, none above ten thousand, and each quotes a different contract address. So that chatter is same-name noise, not attention on this token. Since our signal the pair has leaned heavier: buys still outweigh sells, hourly volume is only about 0.41x the market cap, and the token sits -25% below where we flagged it. It is still on the pumpfun bonding curve, short of graduation. The risks that matter: the top ten wallets hold 24.1%, a block big enough to swing price if it leaves together; high-frequency wallets are 51.6% of holders, so much of the book is fast traders rather than sticky owners; and 58 of the top hundred buyers have already sold at least half of what they bought. Mint and freeze authority are renounced and taxes are zero. The deployer has created one token including this one, and its wallet is now empty. Smart money is thin: four smart wallets bought near our signal for $759 in total, our verified set shows nothing, and no KOL wallets bought. 📊 @ +4 min: MC $18.9K · Liq $13.9K · Holders 53 · 1h +409% · 1h Vol $27.0K 📈 now (+3 min 56 s): MC $17.1K · Holders 66 · 5m buys/sells 63/33 · 5m +290% Signals TG: @ memmememjk Not financial advice. Analysis only · DYOR · Path since our signal (+84s, 5s ticks): $21.3K -> $11.7K (0.55x now, peak 1.00x at +10s) ⭐ AI gold-dog score 58/100 (1-min model, SOL pump): similar-ranked tokens hit 5x 8% / 2x 22% of the time within 2h Rug screen (60s model): Low risk. Similar tokens: 34% fell 70%+ within 10 min, 60% were dead within 1h (n=834, last 10d) #Solana# #memecoin#

Shell’s stance on diversity helps the energy giant comply with regulations in Europe and beyond. It’s also become central to legal challenges in the US. Read the full story: 📷: Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg