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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…
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Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister
The man to my right stared at me incredulously. He had the seat next to mine in the back of Cowell Theatre, and I had…
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Venus: It’s too h-o-t-t-o-g-o
The only images that we have from the surface of Venus are from the 1970s and 1980s. They were taken by the Soviet Venera landers,…