2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (646+ words) At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social, political, and economic upheaval across the globe.” His solution? In a 6000-word essay,…...

4+ day, 22+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (425+ words) Meta, the tech giant formerly known simply as Facebook, will pay upward of $17.1 billion in settlement funds to the 29 states that jointly sued the corporation back in 2023, per CBS. The suit was levied because of Meta’s disregard for the mental…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (156+ words) In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ben Crair recounts his journey to a Paleolithic “art gallery” cave: “The Prehistoric Paintings on the Walls of Caves … With the Right Kind of Light, Some Actually Seem to Move,” September/October 2026 Researchers like Diego Garate…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (491+ words) Magical things have been seen in the skies for thousands of years, often interpreted by Earthlings as visitors from other planets. In modern times, unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings have become a popular hobby. Established in 1974, the National UFO Reporting…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (155+ words) University of Texas El Paso mathematics prof (emeritus) Granville Sewell has produced a short video (8:54 min) summarizing his main thesis with respect to evolution:. Materialists argue that evolution could happen by chance; non-materialists argue that it requires design. He contends…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (589+ words) This article by Wesley J. Smith is republished from Science and Culture Today. Originally crossposted from National Review. The nature rights movement continues to advance into respectability against woefully insufficient resistance. Too many people don’t take the threat seriously because they…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (32+ words) mindmatters.ai When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (328+ words) This article by philosopher of science Bruce Gordon is republished from Science and Culture Today. The frequently thought-provoking series Closer to Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, recently released an interview clip with the Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto....