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08/09/2017 - 11:36
What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes... →
02/06/2017 - 13:29
I believe, as do most people, that citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to remain informed, but I fear this constant deluge of... →
06/02/2017 - 12:59
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of... →
29/11/2016 - 13:22
The Evidence
In studies in 2010 and 2014, my research group at Wharton evaluated media consumption patterns of more than 1,700 iTunes users... →
21/07/2016 - 12:17
So can a zest for garlic be learned prenatally? Peter Hepper of the University of Belfast decided to find out. He and colleagues tested... →
22/04/2016 - 15:28
One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than... →
01/03/2016 - 13:30
These are all fictional tales, to be sure, and in each the leaders who held the power used conspicuous forms of control that at least a few... →
17/01/2016 - 17:40
Given that so much of our culture is now predominantly digital, then, how will it last through the centuries? How will all the information... →
15/01/2016 - 17:03
“People would get stuck at my desk,” Cunningham recalls. “I couldn’t use my computer because they wouldn’t go away. They found the joy of... →
04/01/2015 - 13:18
Ronen and co-authors from MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix-Marseille University tackled the problem by describing... →
07/12/2014 - 12:35
However, the click had some unfortunate side effects. It flooded the web with spam, linkbait, painful design and tricks that treated users... →
13/10/2014 - 11:18
Many speed-reading methods involve making sure that new words are always in just the right place for the fovea to recognise. The people... →