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The devastating outcome of the 1983 game reveals that nuclear escalation inevitably spirals out of control. … Continue readingThe Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times
Successful geoengineering experiments could put a pause on or slow down the warming of Earth’s climate, buying time for decarbonization… … Continue readingGeoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
From ChatGPT to a billion agents: I expect that in 2025, we will have systems that people look at, even people who… … Continue reading2025 Will Be the Year of Billions of AI Agents
Matyáš Moravec at SciTech Daily: Is Time an Illusion? How Logic Challenges Our Understanding of Reality. … Continue readingThe Philosophical Debate on ‘TIME’ Continues: A Century Later
The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes typically devour it from within… … Continue readingWhy Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years
Many people are left behind in tasks that do not come under their control, and where they have control, they do not work on it, and the result is always
Dubbed “evolved neuroprotection,” the findings paint a picture of how our large brains gained their size, wiring patterns, and… … Continue readingWhy Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control.
Lee Alan Dugatkin in The Guardian: Standing before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 22 June 1972, the ecologist turned psychologist John Bumpass Calhoun, the director of the
The Science Museum in Britain holds numerous items associated with the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose. … Continue readingThe Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos
From the World Bank Blogs: However, we mustn’t lose sight of the numerous other countries with high poverty rates. … Continue readingHalf of the World’s Poor Live in Just 5 Countries
A beautiful timelapse video of Europa and IO passing over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot using hundreds of images from Cassini. … Continue readingVideo: Europa and IO Passing Over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Helen Pearson in Nature: Artificial intelligence (AI) could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks. … Continue readingCan AI Review the Scientific Literature — and Figure Out What it All Means?