Category: Insight
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times
The devastating outcome of the 1983 game reveals that nuclear escalation inevitably spirals out of control.
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…
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…
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 Three Circles of Influence
Many people are left behind in tasks that do not come under their control, and…
Why Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control.
Dubbed “evolved neuroprotection,” the findings paint a picture of how our large brains gained their size, wiring patterns, and…
The ‘Mad Egghead’ Who Built a Mouse Utopia
Lee Alan Dugatkin in The Guardian: Standing before the Royal Society of Medicine in London…
The Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos
The Science Museum in Britain holds numerous items associated with the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
Half of the World’s Poor Live in Just 5 Countries
From the World Bank Blogs: However, we mustn’t lose sight of the numerous other countries with high poverty rates.
Video: Europa and IO Passing Over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
A beautiful timelapse video of Europa and IO passing over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot using hundreds of images from Cassini.
Can AI Review the Scientific Literature — and Figure Out What it All Means?
Helen Pearson in Nature: Artificial intelligence (AI) could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.