Six weeks ago, a reporter, Nicholas Wade, published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest… | Continue reading
It’s hard to argue with the famously authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, but its definition of physics as the “branch of… | Continue reading
Part of Dennis Plenker’s daily job is growing cancer. And a variety of different ones, too.Depending on the day and the project,… | Continue reading
Six weeks ago, a reporter, Nicholas Wade, published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest… | Continue reading
Quantum mechanics seems to have a problem with the order of time, which might signal the need for an entirely new type of law.Illustration… | Continue reading
Quantum mechanics seems to have a problem with the order of time, which might signal the need for an entirely new type of law.Illustration… | Continue reading
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering… | Continue reading
When I first posted on social media about my new book, Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad, some of my friends were confused.… | Continue reading
One of my favorite albeit heavily paraphrased quotes from Albert Einstein is his assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about… | Continue reading
1 The “Dataome” Is HugeThe dataome is shorthand to describe all of the externalized information we generate in symbolic representations:… | Continue reading
One of my favorite albeit heavily paraphrased quotes from Albert Einstein is his assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about… | Continue reading
When I first posted on social media about my new book, Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad, some of my friends were confused.… | Continue reading
1 The “Dataome” Is HugeThe dataome is shorthand to describe all of the externalized information we generate in symbolic representations:… | Continue reading
One of my favorite albeit heavily paraphrased quotes from Albert Einstein is his assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about… | Continue reading
Ultrasound can be a neuromodulator—to increase or decrease the likelihood that neurons will fire. Exactly how this works remains… | Continue reading
Orion, a SolarWinds product, was designed to monitor the users’ networks to make sure they were functioning properly and, ironically,… | Continue reading
The boy was only a month old but had developed the amount of health problems that other people don’t acquire in a lifetime. He was… | Continue reading
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to… | Continue reading
If you could soar high in the sky, as red kites often do in search of prey, and look down at the domain of all things known and yet… | Continue reading
The boy was only a month old but had developed the amount of health problems that other people don’t acquire in a lifetime. He was… | Continue reading
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to… | Continue reading
If you could soar high in the sky, as red kites often do in search of prey, and look down at the domain of all things known and yet… | Continue reading
If you could soar high in the sky, as red kites often do in search of prey, and look down at the domain of all things known and yet… | Continue reading
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to… | Continue reading
The boy was only a month old but had developed the amount of health problems that other people don’t acquire in a lifetime. He was… | Continue reading
Orion, a SolarWinds product, was designed to monitor the users’ networks to make sure they were functioning properly and, ironically,… | Continue reading
Orion, a SolarWinds product, was designed to monitor the users’ networks to make sure they were functioning properly and, ironically,… | Continue reading
So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi /… | Continue reading
So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi /… | Continue reading
So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi /… | Continue reading
Elaine Morgan had sass. In Descent of Woman, published in 1972, she asked her readers to take science into their own hands. “Try… | Continue reading
The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good for… | Continue reading
Human-induced climate change may seem a purely modern phenomenon. Even in ancient Greece, however, people understood that human activities… | Continue reading
Human-induced climate change may seem a purely modern phenomenon. Even in ancient Greece, however, people understood that human activities… | Continue reading
Elaine Morgan had sass. In Descent of Woman, published in 1972, she asked her readers to take science into their own hands. “Try… | Continue reading
Human-induced climate change may seem a purely modern phenomenon. Even in ancient Greece, however, people understood that human activities… | Continue reading
The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good for… | Continue reading
Elaine Morgan had sass. In Descent of Woman, published in 1972, she asked her readers to take science into their own hands. “Try… | Continue reading
The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good for… | Continue reading
Footage of a mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to subvert the legal and peaceful transfer of power, filled many… | Continue reading
In 1777—after whipping local people for trivial offenses, spreading venereal disease, and clumsily avoiding a plot to kill him—the… | Continue reading
I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged… | Continue reading
I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged… | Continue reading
Footage of a mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to subvert the legal and peaceful transfer of power, filled many… | Continue reading
I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged… | Continue reading
In 1777—after whipping local people for trivial offenses, spreading venereal disease, and clumsily avoiding a plot to kill him—the… | Continue reading
Footage of a mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to subvert the legal and peaceful transfer of power, filled many… | Continue reading
I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged… | Continue reading