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Sensory perception has stymied thinkers for millennia. The discovery of a new color might change that.
A thousand UK musicians release a silent album protesting a government proposal that lets AI companies freely pillage their work.
What happens when USAID is gone? It’s only been a few days and so far it’s chaos.
The universe is a strange place. Scientists just discovered a planet with 20,000 mile per hour winds.
We’re not rocket scientists but with weather in the contiguous United States getting hotter, wetter and pricier, now might not be the best time to scrub data from governmental web sites.
Potatoes are awesome. Big Potato, not so much. In the United States, it faces lawsuits over price fixing.
As mountaineers trek to remote areas that most scientists can’t get to, a research partnership is born.
Three oarfish washed up on California’s shore in the last few months. Scientists only know of 19 in the previous 123 years. What gives?
A 1958 film directed by Frank Capra, funded by AT&T and aired on American TV warns us about climate change. Yes, in 1958, almost seventy years ago.
Books
As a techno-elite looks to colomize space, their aspirations hide a sorry ethics back on Earth.
Science
Researchers tested 105 human children, 106 adult chimpanzees and 32 adult orangutans on a battery of cognitive assessments. The results were interesting.
Books
Online connections fray social fabric argues Nicholas Carr in his new book.
Technology
AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them
Via Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)Climate
Trying to build the world’s largest database of climate change research.
Via CarbonBrief (opens in a new tab)Being
Loneliness can serve as a means of becoming acquainted with important features of ourselves, features we might miss if we’re too quick to eradicate or look away from our condition.
Via Phil Papers (opens in a new tab)Fungi
Mycelium is the living body of a fungus. It grows as thin, branching filaments known as hyphae, which spread out in all directions in search of food.
Via Architecture & Design (opens in a new tab)
