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By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
“Deepfakes” and “cheap fakes” are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Of course, it’s all about where you move. The authors argue that it needs to be less populous regions.
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?
Is Bitcoin akin to ‘digital gold’?
Can researchers use data science to accurately predict the future?
She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
Can we affirm everything in life, the beauty and the suffering? Nietzsche says yes.
In principle, the laws of physics are the same forwards and backwards. But in practice, time only runs in one direction. Most of the laws of physics are the same […]
Fear-mongering is now a billion-dollar industry.
What happens when simulation theory becomes more than a fascinating thought experiment?
The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]
Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
We’ve all had days where the drive home has us fuming over some belittling comment a coworker made, gossip they’ve spread about you, or a meeting where they’ve taken credit […]
The 20th century was marked by waves of pro-democracy revolutions. Now, the future of democracy looks uncertain.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
Attending religious service once a week found to lower risk of suicide and other “deaths of despair”
In late April, the news hit us hard: Lorna Breen, an emergency room doctor in a Manhattan hospital flooded with coronavirus patients, committed suicide. According to her father, the emotional […]
Here’s a formula for chaos: Collect a diverse and volatile group of eccentric comedians and comedy writers, and give them a nearly impossible task with a just-barely-possible deadline. Oh, and […]
Stock markets may be plummeting, but that doesn’t mean the spread of COVID-19 is hurting everyone’s bottom line.
You might be inclined to modify gravity instead, but those ideas have grossly unequal evidence supporting them. What is it, exactly, that you’re supposed to do when the predictions of […]
It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]
How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]