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Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
The multi-leveled constructions of metaphysics are the collective workings of a fantastical virtuality. Did you get that?
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn't if it's going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn't happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.
Einstein called his idea "abominable," but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.
At this event, you’ll be around to hear the eulogy.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
The story of China is the story of global economics.
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Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there's an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What's it like?
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
Always look on the bright side of death.
The utilitarian “greatest happiness principle” has remained popular for two centuries — is it time for a rethink?
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here's what's known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?