According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
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We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece's brightest minds.
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The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
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In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can't we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
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NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
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Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.