In 1950, William Faulkner delivered a famous acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature in which he rallied for the “inexhaustible…
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These days, Gen Z appears to be pivoting towards skilled trades, perhaps driven by a desire for “AI-proof” job security.…
Across Africa, governments are introducing digital systems that use individuals’ unique physical measurements to identify them. These systems collect citizens’…
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced…
In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a…
Few actors are imitated as often as Michael Caine. Even Michael Caine has imitated Michael Caine. His voice has been used in birthday…
How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the…
When a human says an event is “probable” or “likely,” people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what…
It’s 1 a.m. The argument is over, but you keep running it back in your head anyway. You replay the…