Between Microsoft’s racist chatbot to beating the world GO champion, artificial intelligence has better things to do than whatever we’re afraid of. Here’s a recap of the highlights.
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Planet Nine? More like “Planet maybe.” “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.” –Mike Brown Last week, the […]
Is Amanda Palmer (who turns 40 today!), queen of pop-up concerts, kickstarter, and social media, the prototypical artist of the future?
A live-blog event of a fabulous public lecture given by Katie Freese on the unseen components in our Universe. “If you take everything we know… it only adds up to […]
June 21 is International Yoga Day, a move sponsored by the Indian prime minister — and quickly capitalized upon by the Indian tourism board.
The arrogance and ignorance of American presidential candidate Donald Trump come alive in these three maps, which continue cartography’s wonderful history of satirical takedowns.
Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner’s sustained dominance.
A new study says people who worry are better prepared than those who don’t — but that’s not the whole story.
When we see the future through rose-tinted lenses, we are less likely to take the action necessary to achieve our goals.
It’s the rebels among us that change the world.
New research suggests that converting all of our energy to renewable energy might actually be possible by 2050.
Millennials are already shifting ideas of what is and isn’t an acceptable or attractive company culture.
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Building encryption into everyday services is more than just good business.
We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.
As it turns out, assessing long-term risk/reward ratio isn’t our strong suit.
Anonymous targets Donald Trump for his proposed ban on allowing Muslims to enter the United States.
If energy is always conserved, then what “gains” the energy that photons lose as the Universe expands? “…in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs […] in all […]
If You Work in a Creative Industry, You Should Steal Other People’s Ideas Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those […]
If sold at today’s value, the value of that stock would be $45 billion.
The Shipping Forecast is quite possibly the most British thing ever.
I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile.
Hawking’s greatest achievement is also the greatest source of misunderstanding. “Maybe that is our mistake: maybe there are no particle positions and velocities, but only waves. It is just that […]
They’re judged to be “standard candles” and the greatest cosmic distance indicators. What if they’re not so standard? “It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in this room. […]
Beauty and duty are increasingly involved in an undeclared conflict. It’s not a fair fight; one side is much stronger (illustrating how art works on our “hidden brain”).
There are many different levels, but one key difference separates science from the rest. “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory […]
Teachers reinforce that making mistakes will get you a dunce cap. Shouldn’t it be getting you a gold star instead?
The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven’t accepted Jesus.
How we’ll directly take pictures of Earth-like planets in the future! “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood […]
It can diminish the quality of your work in the long-term.
Harvard Business School professor Bill George says more people of character ought to run for office… but probably won’t.
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