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By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.
Researchers are studying the use of sperm cells as micromotors for delivering chemotherapy to cervical cancer patients.
Not all books are created equal. Especially when it comes to the ones parents read to children to aid their development. A new study from the University of Florida points to an important characteristic to look for in children’s books.
Just because it isn’t Thanksgiving anymore doesn’t mean we don’t have an entire Universe to be thankful for. Every day, we have a choice whether we take our lives, our existence, […]
Coercion requires justification. How can we justify the invisible walls of our visa policies?
One patient retained the ability to dress herself, make a simple meal, and even change her plans depending on the weather.
The internet and social media have made persuasive appeals more powerful than ever before.
A new study shows how access to medical marijuana significantly impacted the use of opioids by patients.
The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.
Infographics that show how we’re all addicted to something.
In the aftermath of everything we’ve learned about what’s in the Universe, we can make much better estimates of how many alien civilizations are out there. In 1961, scientist Frank Drake […]
“The greatest change-agent profession… is the legal profession.” But should these change agents side with big corporations?
Half the pain of paying taxes is having no control over where it goes. This Harvard professor has a great idea to give people more of a voice… and it involves just a very slight change in something as boring as a parking ticket.
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Trying to understand California aflame.
Genetic editing in people gathers steam.
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss spoke at CSICon 2016 about scientists’ attempt to look back in time to the beginning of our universe.
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms
What method helps you retain more information — reading, highlighting, or even interrogation?
Technology is allowing us to quantify exercise like never before, but turning activity into a game may be the most successful way to encourage fitness yet.
How the U.S. teaches foreign languages to its diplomats.
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
DST has implications on our history, our health, and even our chances of being the victim of a crime.
Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
You mad, bro? The way that Facebook (and Twitter) manipulates your brain should be the very thing that outrages us the most.
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“Sports is war minus the shooting,” said George Orwell. So far, however, a thawing of tensions between North Korea and South Korea has been the big political story of the 2018 Olympic Games.
In her enlightening new book, Blue Dreams, Lauren Slater covers the history of psychotropic drugs.
Punishment has been a human universal, because it has been in our evolutionary interests. But those evolutionary impulses are crude guides to how we should deal with offenders in contemporary society.
The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.
Even if it can’t detect them directly, we’ll learn the answer. Here’s how. Perhaps the most revolutionary find of the past generation, when we think about the Universe beyond Earth, is […]