Joseph Calandrielloflipped into Muse4 hours agoAncient Inventions That Feel Like Modern Onesmindmatters.ai - NewsNew York City-based journalist Tim Brinkhof opens a window into the past on conceptually advanced technology from centuries ago or even ancient …
Joseph Calandrielloflipped into Codex2 days ago6 New True Crime Books to Read This Summerverified_publisherThe New York Times - Tina JordanThat image you have in your mind of 17th-century pirates? Tattooed, gold-earringed guys swaggering about in thigh-hugging leather boots, clutching cutlasses between their teeth, glowering at the captives they send down the plank? Turns out it isn’t quite right. Though they did carry cutlasses — …
Joseph Calandrielloflipped into Codex8 hours agoActaeon, Medusa, and Orpheus: The Greek Taboo of Lookingthecollector.com - Bethany WilliamsIn Greek mythology, bad things happen to people when they look at something they shouldn’t. Actaeon, Orpheus, and Medusa: these three myths all …
Joseph Calandrielloflipped into MuseNowExplaining XXY: What it's like to be born male with an extra X chromosomestuff.co.nz - Melanie EarleyIs it fair that some NZ regions have different rules about who can access publicly-funded fertility treatment? Aotearoa has just 93 known cases of men …
Joseph Calandrielloflipped into Muse16 hours agoThe White Christian Nationalists Leading America's Children to Slaughtercommondreams.org - Chrissy StroopAs I write this column on Wednesday 25 May, the death toll from the US's latest mass shooting, at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, …
Joseph Calandrielloflipped into Codex10 hours agoDeepMind: Why is AI so good at language? It's something in language itselfverified_publisherZDNet - Tiernan RayHow is it that a program such as OpenAI's GPT-3 neural network can answer multiple choice questions, or write a poem in a particular style, despite …
