Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
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AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
If you’ve found yourself befuddled by extraordinary scientific-sounding claims, you’re not alone. But this centuries-old lesson can help.
When it comes to handling our emotions, we can’t afford to be none the WISER.
Ever wondered what oxytocin receptor proteins sound like?
“Less is better” is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn’t shower for five years thinks there’s a lot of truth to it.
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren’t worth that much.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
The answer may lie in the power to see far, far beyond yourself.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn’t if it’s going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
I think, therefore I am (rich).
To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.
When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness.
How will we actually feel when the things we do with care are suddenly dealt with in seconds by AI? Here’s a preliminary plan.
George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven’t seen that artist yet.”
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
Thomas Edison was on to something…