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Biotech might give Icarus his wings. Solar eclipses, laser physicists… and mosquitoes? New Muslim voices in science fiction. Happy 50th, Star Trek. This unexpected writer made you what are. Oh, and…
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Your brain on stories. (Or, molecular effects of Star Wars.) Read books, live longer… …but only Toni Morrison or Salman Rushdie will make you live better. Mapping the human condition on…
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Science fiction has a huge race problem, and stock solutions don’t cut it. You’re welcome: 19th century math genius gets Hamilton-ized. The electrifying history of modern fencing. Ah, Ancient Greece. Land…
Tech, Humanity, Language, and Romance
For JSTOR Daily, Matt Langione reviews the current state of artificial intelligence, and the strides AI technology must make to fully complement human thought and experience. The latest step, Langione…
Read More, Live Longer
In a recent study, researchers found that people over fifty who read more—books in particular—lived an average of two years longer than those who didn’t read at all: The researchers discovered…
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Nabokov’s epilepsy, heart problems, and unpublished letters. A dictionary for the fleshy bits of brain that store our words. Ephemerality meets Instagram. The secret sauce behind NBC’s Olympics telecast. Your designated…
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You subconsciously love car alarms and early morning construction. Nature on Mary Shelley and brains that “whizzed.” Well-aged whiskey sans barrel: researchers’ little secret. Save money! Eat salad! Click here…
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Boy meets lichen, proves 150 years of science textbooks wrong. Want to improve your social skills? Try fiction, not speed-dating. How wasps gave us Shakespeare. In psychology, American undergrad =…
The 18th Century from a Balloon
In the first of a two-part series at the Public Domain Review, Lily Ford uses 18th century illustrations and drawings from balloonists to capture the changes in science and society…
Signing off on the Future
For Hyperallergic, Allison Meier covers design ideas for nuclear waste warning signs, with scientists and artists around the world attempting to design warning signs that would deter humans 10,000 (or…
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Extremely large and incredibly close (to your tent): bison! Did you know Tom Sawyer used glowing fungi (a real thing) to light up a tunnel? Watch 6,000 years of civilization…
Living with False Memories
For Pacific Standard, Ed Cara explores the malleability of memory and the very real and frequent occurrence of false memories, via new work by criminal psychologist and memory scientist Dr.…