Category: Lifestyle
This Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Generative AI is a data hog. The algorithms behind…
Evolution’s New Narrative: Life is a Decentralized, Horizontal Network, Not Merely a Centralized, Hierarchical Tree
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not…
Civility Won’t Save Us
Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable…
Researchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
Iris Kulbatski in The Scientist: The gut’s sensory system is a touchy subject thanks to specialized…
Jim Harrison: Why I Write
I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the…
How Does Language Begin in the Womb?
by Darshana Narayanan at Aeon: Some restless infants don’t wait for birth to let out…
Cars Beat Climate in Court
Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor of the Imagine Newsletter: For planning to block a motorway…
Not Yet Panicking About AI? You Should Be
Daniel Kehlmann in The Guardian: I do not want to demonise the revolution we are…
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
Yascha Mounk at his own Substack: Eitan Hersh is Professor of Political Science at Tufts…
Martin Luther King and Philosophical Personalism
by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama…
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River…
Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars…