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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?