2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (309+ words) As students, teachers, and schools begin another academic year, one technology that is guaranteed to be at the center of the educational pursuit, like it or not, is artificial intelligence. Since 2022, widespread use of generative AI and chatbots has upended…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (648+ words) A quarter century ago, in mid-September in Toronto, I was tidying plants on the retaining wall of the front yard. My mother was sipping coffee on the porch. A neighbor came out and called over, “Thought you might want to…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (557+ words) The End of Oak Street, out digitally on September 15, should have been a box office hit on paper. Just look at the trailer. It’s an ’80s throwback movie! It has dinosaurs! It has Anne Hathaway fighting the dinosaurs with a shotgun!...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is an old favorite of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claim that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (211+ words) Burgess describes the different types of movable joints in humans, and he explains why the “human musculoskeletal system has a level of design sophistication far higher than the best current humanoid robots.” In addition, he recommends how biological design could…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (251+ words) This week marks 25 years since the shocking attacks of September 11, 2001. Except for pockets of barbarity cowering in sleeper cells and caves, the entire world lauded the first responders, mourned the lost, and soundly condemned the perpetrators. Consider these recurring themes…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. While you are carefully putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Watch the video…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) Adami runs through an example. In his example, 100 bits of information are required. This would take about 1030 attempts to produce by random chance. If we generously grant a billion attempts for every second in the half-billion years it took life…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (193+ words) From Dr. Selim, “It came as a big surprise to us that one of the earliest life forms on Earth — evolutionarily older and simpler cells — had already developed communication structures regulated by calcium signals similar to those found in the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...