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Neanderthal Guys and Human Gals: Did human women prefer Neanderthal men?
Neanderthals and non-African modern humans interbred 49,000 to 45,000 years ago. Only 2% of our DNA comes from Neanderthals. A recent paper by Alexander Platt,…
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AI and Therapeutic Abundance: Clinical trials are unlikely to get much cheaper
AI can help to design drug candidates, but as Ruxanda Teslo argues on Asimov Press, it’s not going to lead to therapeutic abundance anytime soon.…
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The Shoe Thief: I’ve been protective of my hiking shoes ever since they were stolen by a jackal
The Skeleton Coast is a stretch of desert in the North of Namibia that for more than 300 kilometers isn’t crossed by any road. Those…
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The Limits of Intuition: Will we ever be able to understand the quantum world?
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Richard Feynman Our intuitions aren’t innate. We can shape and train them; it’s what…
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America vs Europe: Europe has its advantages, but its economy isn’t one of them
Americans have inaccurate opinions about Europe. Liberals think it’s better and conservatives think it’s worse than it really is. I spent the first 30 years…
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Paleolithic signs: I’d love for us to discover a stone age writing system, but this is not it
Writing is one of humanity’s best inventions. Unlike speech, it allows the transmission of ideas over generations with little degradation. You, in the year 2026,…
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