4+ day, 14+ 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, 16+ 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, 11+ 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, 14+ 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (213+ words) This interview in the link below first appeared in Humanize. We are in the age of artificial intelligence. But what does that mean for the human future? Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (760+ words) When solving problems, engineers and computer programmers must sometimes think outside the box This week’s Micro Softy examines such a case. In the following problem, someone without any technical background was able to figure out why a lawnmower’s mows-per-gallon rate…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (689+ words) Anthony Fauci made himself the public face of pandemic lockdowns in 2020, and now we have a glimpse of what was going on behind his eyes. Newly released diaries paint an unflattering portrait of a self-obsessed and not entirely honest bureaucrat,…...