4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (140+ words) Here’s a discussion between Dr. Luján Comas and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, dubbed for Spanish speakers, in conjunction with the translation of The Immortal Mind: (2025) into Spanish — La mente inmortal (2026). A special feature of the Spanish translation is an introduction by…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (736+ words) Exceptional nerds can uncover solutions that others overlook. Test yourself. When her husband needed to have his gallbladder removed, she refused to do the operation. I have actually told you her unusual name in the information above. What is it?...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (448+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is a staple of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claims that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (898+ words) The solution to last week’s Microsofty involves a bit of math, so this week we offer a puzzle that challenges you to think outside the box instead: Landscaper Lou was given 10 apple trees and told to plant them in five…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (298+ words) This article by David Klinghoffer is republished from Science and Culture Today. Our colleague Andrew McDiarmid has a powerful piece in the New York Post today, with a fascinating statistic: The data tell us that Americans are quite literally speaking…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (28+ words) mindmatters.ai Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (882+ words) Some recent AI news falls into each of these categories: AI can be used to quickly spot routine errors in past documents that we would not hire editors to do, for economic reasons. At Nature, Chris Stokel-Walker explains, In two…...