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Shared by Irshad Salim: “We are completely immune to advertising, do you know why? It’s all good news.” “Why do we find real news to be bad news? Because it
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by Carol A Westbrook: It all began about 4.5 billion years ago, give or take a few millennia. The earth was still young, having been formed by the accretion of
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Yasemin Saplakoglu in Quanta: Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, too. But in the 1990s neuroimaging
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By Renée DiResta in Noema: You’ve probably seen it: a flock of starlings pulsing in the evening sky, swirling this way and that, feinting right, veering left. The flock gets
Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of artificial sleep could help stop this from happening Jeremy Hsu
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Aesthetic value is a catch-all term that encompasses the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the dramatic, the comic, the cute, the kitsch, the uncanny, and many other related concepts. It
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GHULAM MUSTAFA: At the time of this writing, there are about 6 billion smart phones on this planet. Each equipped with a high resolution camera. Let’s assume that each smart
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Anil Ananthaswamy in Quanta: For researchers interested in the intersection of animal and machine intelligence, “supervised learning” might be limited in what it can reveal about biological brains. Animals —
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Here are some reasons why Japanese kids are different than the rest of the world: Schoolchildren follow rules that are strange but true: These children’s daily rituals at school enable
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IRSHAD SALIM, Karachi: Dr. Gholam Mustafa, a California-based professional whom we used to call ‘Qalandar’ in NED –this was in the early 70s until, to quote Hamza Shahid (Oscar), “we
The arrow of time began its journey at the Big Bang, and when the Universe eventually dies there will be no more future and no past. In the meantime, what
The art of attaining closeness to God via the annihilation of the ego which includes not only the base self but also the (often) self-serving intellect. “My turban and gown and
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