Long-form Journalism Don’t Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari review – the truth about languageThe Guardian - Joe MoranWords aren’t a condiment you sprinkle on top of reality; they are the marinade that alters the taste of everything As a boy, David Shariatmadari would sit in the hallway and listen to his Iranian father
Dolphins Deinse Herzing: Do Dolphins Have A Language?NPR - NPR/TED StaffWe know that dolphins make distinctive clicks and whistles. But is that a language? Researcher Denise Herzing thinks it might be — and for the past 35 years — she's been working on unlocking it. Denise
Physics Being and Becoming in Modern Physics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)stanford.edu Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet …
Science When we start uploading our brains to computers, will our sense of self be uploaded too?sciencefocus.com - Dr Peter Bentley Our sense of self emerges from the activity of a poorly understood network of neurons, glial cells and blood vessels in the brain, which together …
Cognition How to Forget About Work When You’re Not WorkingHarvard Business Review - Art MarkmanWhen was the last time you got away from work? I mean truly got away from it: didn’t think about it, didn’t worry about it, didn’t have a to-do list rattling around in your brain. Most of us know there
Technology Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?MIT Technology Review - Erika Hayasaki Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.” The black mouse on the screen sprawls on its belly, back …
Culture Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?BBC Future - Sumit Paul-ChoudhuryThroughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? Before Mohammed, before Jesus, before Buddha, there was
Psychology First Contact or First Murder?psychologytoday.com - Guy P. Harrison It is an odd sequence of events common to many branches of scientific study: A student falls in love with the beauty, mystery, and complexity of a …
Consciousness Why Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Consciousmindmatters.ai - News It’s easy to mock the idea. But consider what neuroscientists studying consciousness are up against: Traditionally, scientists have been stalwart …
Happiness Humans Aren’t Designed to Be Happy – and That's a Good ThingInverse - Rafael Euba A huge happiness and positive thinking industry, estimated to be worth $11 billion a year, has helped to create the fantasy that happiness is a …
Geometry Does the Universe Rotate?space.com - Mara Johnson-Groh If you look around space, you'll notice a lot of things — the planets, stars, moons, even the galaxy itself — have one thing in common: they're …
Homosexuality Are we set for a new sexual revolution?BBC Future - Brandon AmbrosinoFrom reproduction without sex to open relationships, our attitudes towards sex may evolve rapidly in the near future, predicts the writer Brandon Ambrosino. Many of our answers probably include a reference
Albert Einstein Is the Future Already Written? |discovermagazine.com George Ellis is not afraid to rock the establishment. In his youth in South Africa, his target was a recognizably corrupt and racist government. Now …
People more likely to trust machines than humans with their private informationphys.org - Matt Swayne Not everyone fears our machine overlords. In fact, according to Penn State researchers, when it comes to private information and access to financial …
What Are the Ethical Consequences of Immortality Technology? - Aeon - Pocketgetpocket.com - Yowi Fy Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment – both intellectual and …
Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness?BBC Future - David RobsonGiulio Tononi’s "integrated information theory" might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle Can a lobster feel pain in the same way as you or I? We know that they have the same sensors – called nociceptors
Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free willsciencemag.org - Bahar Gholipour Philosophers have spent millennia debating whether we have free will, without reaching a conclusive answer. Neuroscientists optimistically entered …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo When Did Humans Start to Get Old?discovermagazine.com Age 116, Kane Tanaka of Japan was recently crowned the oldest person on Earth. She’s six years shy of the longest human life on record: 122 years and …
Multiverse This Is Why The Multiverse Must ExistForbes - Ethan SiegelThe Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The multiverse idea states that there are an arbitrarily large number of Universes like our own out there, embedded in our Multiverse. It's possible,
Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time - Facts So Romanticnautil.us - Brian Gallagher Studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it, it melts between your fingers and vanishes.”Image by Mobilos / …
A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective realityMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the …
Watch: Newly Restored Footage of 1953 Nuclear Tests Shows Terrifying Power of Atomic BombGeek - By Stephanie Valera Newly restored video clips of bomb tests conducted in Nevada in 1953 are providing a glimpse of the terrifying force of a nuclear bomb blast up-close …
A fear of regret can lock us into bad relationships, jobs and habits – here’s how to break freepsypost.org - The Conversation How many times have you thought about starting a company, taking a year out to write that novel or leaving a loveless relationship but ended up doing …
Can a Christian be Moral ?patheos.com - Humanist Plus Can a Christian be moral? That question must sound absurd to a Christian, but the same absurd question is posed to atheists, often by Christians: Can …
The 500-Year-Long Science ExperimentThe Atlantic - Sarah ZhangIn 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they’re dead. In the year 2514, some future scientist will arrive at the University of Edinburgh (assuming the university
The blind spotaeon.co - Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser & Evan Thompson It's tempting to think science gives a God's-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our perilBy Adam Frank, Marcelo …
Zero is just 1,500 years old. Before it, there was nothing.Popular Science - Eleanor CumminsHow humans invented zero—and why some tried desperately to do without it. Before there was nothing. Then, there was zero. So ubiquitous is the little oval, imagining life without it seems impossible. the
