Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
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The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
The automated McDonald’s has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.
Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
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The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.
BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
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With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
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Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
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