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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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Deep Culture: The truths we hold to be self-evident
There are truths we have can articulate and justify, and then there are the truths we hold to be self-evident. We often struggle to explain…
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Biofeedback: A way to get more out of medicines?
It’s easy to control your breathing. Making yourself hyperventilate or breathe slowly and deeply is easy. Controlling your heart rate is harder. Typically, it takes…
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Why Not Knowing: Defending our small islands, filled with the warm light of meaning and purpose
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing,Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.…
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Lab-in-the-Loop: The self-driving research laboratories speeding up drug discovery
Artificial intelligence isn’t going to solve drug discovery, at least not the way some people imagine it is going to. Even a hyperintelligent AI, having…
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Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy
Last February, I asked different AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) to investigate if composers have historically died younger than other professions. Two of them couldn’t answer…