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AddHe’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.
Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
In an essay from Amanda Hess's memoir 'Second Life,' she explores her parasocial relationship with the freebirther subculture amid her medicalized pregnancy.
The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.
An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.
S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan
The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks
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Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes
S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
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