AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.
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You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
Remarkable ‘fan art’ commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player’s passing.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of two trillion galaxies in the observable Universe. Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is merely one among the […]
The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]
Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).
The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]
This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
It’s an incredibly useful approximation. But the truth takes us far deeper. Anyone who’s ever taken a physics course has learned the same myth for centuries now: that any object thrown, […]
“It’s just a joke,” right?
Have you ever had the experience of giving up on a problem and coming back to it some time later to find its solution suddenly obvious? According to Barbara Oakley, […]
Why does time flow in one direction? Why do humans perceive time so differently than it really is? Is there really a difference between the present, the past, and the future? These books explore these questions and more.
Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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Black hole mergers are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. Could the gravitational waves they produce ever harm us? The Universe is not a static, stable place. Out […]
It’s the largest, most massive planet in the Solar System. But what’s the real story behind all the impacts on Jupiter? One of the most terrifying prospects here on Earth is […]
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.