Category: Insight

What Generative AI Reveals About the Human Mind

Andy Clark in Time Magazine: Generative AI—think Dall.E, ChatGPT-4, and many more—is all the rage. It’s remarkable…

Study Reveals That Scythian Warriors Likely Carried Leather Quivers Made From The Skin Of Their Enemies

By Austin Harvey in All That’s Interesting: New archaeological evidence seemingly confirms the Greek historian Herodotus’…

Contact With ET Within 20 Years

by Marcus Chown in New Scientist in 2004: “If intelligent life exists elsewhere in our…

A 1-Litre Bottle Of Water Contains Some 240,000 Plastic Fragments: Study

Nanoplastics pose a greater threat to human health than microplastics because they’re small enough to…

Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Freedom

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) wrote The Ethics of Ambiguity in 1948. In many ways, it can be…

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

“Genetic studies also seemed to rule out any connection between genes affecting serotonin levels and…

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

by JAMES CLEAR in The New York Times (NYT): The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced…

What are Farm Animals Thinking?

David Grimm in Science: You’d never mistake a goat for a dog, but on an…

Predictions for 2024

Project Syndicate commentators make predictions for 2024: ALAA MURABIT Recent years have underscored the importance…

About Islam, Muslims That They Don’t Tell You About (Video)

Aristotle and the Pleasures of the Table

by Dwight Furrow: It might strike you as odd, if not thoroughly antiquarian, to reach…

Preparing For the Unknown

Shocks will continue. Building resilience is one of the most critical skills we can develop,…