Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. What connects them to AI?
Read more...Part the First: No, This Is Not Another Bell Labs. Bell Labs was justifiably renowned as the place to do high level physics and engineering. It also supported Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their research that identified the background cosmic microwave radiation that is the remnant of the Big Bang. But Bell Labs worked […]
Read more...Like human seniors, an old cat or dog will benefit from help with their special needs.
Read more...In “Nightmare Obscura,” scientist Michelle Carr argues that our dreams are essential pillars of who we are.
Read more...The explosion of populations east of the Mississippi was made possible by logging and the slaughter of wolves.
Read more...How can the Louvre thieves—if they’re still out there—capitalize on their haul?
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Read more...In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
Read more...On the role of reading, particulalry for book lovers.
Read more...Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech.
Read more...In “Nature and the Mind,” Marc Berman uses neuroscience to show how interacting with nature benefits mental health.
Read more...How do people consume arguments or make sense of them in a discursive environment devoid of generally-accepted notions of what makes an argument good or successful?
Read more...Part the First: Beware Scientific Jargon. But everyone here already knows that. Nevertheless, this is a perpetual challenge for every scientist and other scholar who wants to be understood by our fellow citizens without “dumbing it down.” Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading. Jargon works especially well for those of my tribe who […]
Read more...In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to imagine futuristic skylines—melding ziggurats with modernism in a visionary blend of the past and the possible.
Read more...We depart from our usual programming to commemorate the death of Ozzy Osbourne.
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