3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (525+ words) There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is making big breakthroughs in math. The most recent claim concerns Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Theorem1 says that it’s impossible to find three whole numbers…...

4+ day, 13+ 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, 15+ 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, 10+ 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…...

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…...