Mind
Open-Minded People Have a Different Visual Perception of Reality
Psychologists have only begun to unravel the concept of “personality,” that all-important but nebulous feature of individual identity.
Matthew Clapp
Life
'Impossible' chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth
Experiments suggest that metabolism could have begun spontaneously on our primordial planet—and that scientists may need to rethink how we define life.
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Mind
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’
Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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Motion
Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything?
The mother of all string theories passes a litmus test that, so far, no other candidate theory of quantum gravity has been able to match.
Motion
The Large Hadron Collider Is Back and Ready to Hunt for Dark Matter
We spoke to the head of operations at CERN to find out what it takes to fire the collider back up after a brief hiatus for upgrades and maintenance.
Myth
Relation Between Religion and Conspiracy Theories
A large study published in the journal Political Psychology suggests that the link between conspiracy belief and religiosity is rooted in cognitive similarities between the two beliefs.
Culture
Behind the crypto hype is an ideology of social change
Ads for blockchain, NFTs and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin seem to be everywhere. Crypto technologies are being promoted as a replacement for banks; a new way to buy art; the next big investment opportunity, and an essential part of the metaverse.
Culture
Blessed Are Those Drowsy Ones
It's rare to laugh out loud when reading philosophy, but Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra is one of those books. The book is a philosophical treatise written in the form of a novel.
Life
Optimizing Genes with a Genetic Algorithm
In the simplest terms, genetic algorithms simulate a population where each individual is a possible “solution” and let survival of the fittest do its thing.
Matthew
All-New Super Friends Hour
When I was four or five years old, I loved the Super Friends cartoon. I remember the All-New Super Friends Hour, which ran from 1977 to 1978.
Tech
Will AI turn against us?
"I think a lot of people dismiss this kind of talk of superintelligence as science fiction because we’re stuck in this sort of carbon chauvinism idea that intelligence can only exist in biological organisms made of cells and carbon atoms." - Max Tegmark, Physicist
Motion
Which Computational Universe Do We Live In?
Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible. The post Which Computational Universe Do We Live In? first appeared in Quanta Magazine