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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?

Successful geoengineering experiments could put a pause on or slow down the warming of Earth’s climate, buying time for decarbonization…

You Won’t Believe This: Researchers are Trying to “Inoculate” People Against Misinformation

Kai Kupferschmidt in Science: Inoculation, also called “prebunking,” is just one of several techniques researchers are testing…

2025 Will Be the Year of Billions of AI Agents

From ChatGPT to a billion agents: I expect that in 2025, we will have systems that people look at, even people who…

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph.

The Philosophical Debate on ‘TIME’ Continues: A Century Later

Matyáš Moravec at SciTech Daily: Is Time an Illusion? How Logic Challenges Our Understanding of Reality.

Why Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years

The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes typically devour it from within…

The Renaissance In Drawing

Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression

Poem of the Day: To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

by Phillis Wheatley Peters: For nobler themes demand a nobler strain, And purer language on th’ ethereal plain.

The Three Circles of Influence

Many people are left behind in tasks that do not come under their control, and…

This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time

Karl Marx explained the 19th Century. Wolfgang Streeck, the German maverick thinker, is explaining the 21st.

Gandhi on 7 Social Sins, and a Manto Quote

Gandhi published the list in 1925. He also gave the list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, on a piece of paper before his assassination.

Did People Ever Stop Believing In The Greek Gods?

To paraphrase the title of the 1983 book by French philosopher Paul Veynes, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?