“The more you can perceive, the more choice you will have about how to respond.”
communication
What It Means to Speak With the Dead
“A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide.”
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
“To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.”
The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life
“I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished.”
Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.
The Year Mahbuba Found Her Voice
“The young refugee from Afghanistan arrived on the doorstep of a Chicago school. She was deaf and had no previous exposure to formal sign language. What happened next was transformative.”
Can We Talk to Whales?
“Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species.”
The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
“Laced across the cold depths of the world’s oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.”
