“In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation.”
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Why Are Fish So Gay?
“A conversation about finding community in the aquatic.”
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Reality Check
“AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up.”
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Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature’s Brightest Thinkers
“New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined.”
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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
“Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.”
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Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.)
“The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of ‘Brave New World.'”
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Curiosity Is No Solo Act
“It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.”
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Bright, Built World
“A reflection on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language.”