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Ross Pomeroy
Editor, RealClearScience
Steven Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. As a writer, Ross believes that his greatest assets are his insatiable curiosity and his ceaseless love for learning. Follow him on Twitter @SteRoPo.
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"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
A survey of more than 6,000 of the world's richest, most influential people shows that 9% of them attended Harvard University.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
"Personhood" credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.
Could studying the Oriental hornet lead to a treatment for people with alcohol use disorder?
The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.
Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time to end animal research altogether?
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
It's high time owners learned to speak their dog's language.
Manipulating a signaling pathway in mice reversed their anxiety — and offers hope for a new class of anti-anxiety medications for humans.
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
"If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception."
For most of human history, babies probably picked up language by overhearing.
"Fasting...should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while."