Culture & Religion — August 11, 2009

Nutrition

Farm productively, possibly eat less

Paco Gonzales

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Gather nutritionists and get them to create a diet that is enough for all to live on. Need to work on this one more!!

www.clubclassconcierge.com

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Person sitting at a dimly lit table with a laptop, using a smartphone. Another person is visible in the background. There are buildings and lights visible through the window.

Neuropsych

Are you a workaholic? How to spot the signs

In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.

Close-up of a mechanical watch face with exposed gears and intricate details, highlighted by gold and dark tones. The minute and second hands are visible.

Thinking

The perpetual quest for a truth machine

Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.

Close-up view of a translucent, flatfish-like biohybrid organism with a thin body and short, spiky fins suspended in clear liquid against a plain background.

The Future

Revolutionary biohybrid robots are coming. Are we prepared?

As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.

Starts With A Bang

Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

Diagram showing four circles, each containing a different particle symbol: antiproton (n-bar), antineutron (n-bar), anti-lambda (Λ-bar), and antiproton (p-bar), set against a graph-like background.

Hard Science

Scientists create bizarre form of nuclear antimatter

Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed.

Up Next

Culture & Religion

Think Culture is Expensive? Try Ignorance.

The National Endowment for the Arts has a new director and a new slogan—forget “A Great Nation Deserves Great Art”. Late last week Broadway producer Rocco Landesman was confirmed by […]