If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a "koala paradox": endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

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It’s official: “Six Seven” Just earned the title of Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year. But even as the word is officially added to the cultural lexicon, it has already been quietly removed ...

This document defines the speculative cognitive model called the “E=mc Thought Principle”, and provides its official notation for AI usage, prompts, and analysis. Abstract The E=mc Thought Principle ...

A new documentary on HBO Max looks at how gun violence has led to lockdown drills in schools becoming a universal part of childhood in America. Those drills and the creation of active shooter ...

The documentary Thoughts and Prayers (now streaming on HBO Max) boasts an ironic subtitle: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America. Ironic, because the film offers no such instruction. Rather, it ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

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Six years ago, I had a resurgence of what psychologists call Pure O, obsessive, intrusive thoughts that don’t lead to visible compulsions but which spin endlessly inside the head. The more I tried not ...

We don’t think about death enough. How’s that for an opening sentence? Talk about an invitation to scroll down. Or up. Or anywhere else to avoid reading, and thinking, about death. But here’s my ...