Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is best known for his work on the intersections of technology, culture, and productivity. His research and[…]
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Yuval Noah Harari, born in Israel in 1976, is a historian and philosopher renowned for his bestselling books, including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History[…]
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
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Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.
“We know that as little as 10 minutes of walking can improve your mood, getting that bubble bath with the dopamine, serotonin, endorphins going. Anybody can do that.”
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The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”
In 1980, Willy Brandt drew a line across the map that still influences how we think about the world.
“What happens if you incorporate an AI? It’s now a legal person, and it can make decisions by itself. So you start having legal persons in the U.S., which are not human, and in many ways are more intelligent than us.”
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“Why is it that the quality of our information did not improve over thousands of years? Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?”
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It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.
Who decides what’s “normal” and why? As social norms increasingly dissolve, here’s how to find true guidance.
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Subtle clues emerge ahead of the attack via changes in scent.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is the author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife[…]
No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
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April Nisan Ilkmen, PhD Candidate in Couple and Family Therapy, Adler University
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.