Fact-checking the pop science buzz that two brains evolved into one
Once cells know they are neurons, they know which end to go to but that doesn’t amount to two brains.
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British Medical Journal: Covid czars KNEW their system was flawed
CDC canceled the whistleblower rather than deal with the flaws.Assurances of safety were unfounded.
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Another blow to iconic Hollywood’s finances
The stifling of creativity that Cancel Culture imposes and the warping of classics that Wokeness inflicts are symptoms, not causes of decline.
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Fallout from the Cambridge Jason Arday debacle — was anything learned?
The rush on the part of academics to blame media (who can slough off responsibility and reroute the blame to nameless others) is easier to understand once we see that it is only the tip of much bigger scandals.
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At last … $1M award for scholars who try to tell the truth?
The current censorship regime in social science protects entitled mediocrities from being shown up by clever students. Once they have declared a topic off limits, they are safe.
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Which students think shouting down a speaker is okay?
Students from minority backgrounds or other minority positions were more likely to support shouting speakers down.
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Discussion with Michael Egnor elicits wide interest among Spanish speakers
The program has only been up two days and so far it has clocked nearly 22,000 views.
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Why AI companies need to destroy rare books in particular
Pre-2022 books are, it seems, their best source of high quality complex text, uncorrupted by drivel from their chatbots
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Upcoming webinar on the new Catholic encyclical on AI
Pope Leo presented it to the Vatican in person, perhaps to emphasize the importance of the “grandeur of humanity,” and the potential threat.
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Ancient bacteria have communications structures like human ones
This unexpected finding is difficult to square with as purely random origin of life. The researchers seem to sense that.
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Researchers: Cave paintings are much better seen by torchlight
Diego Garate got a chance to test this when he found some modern graffiti in a cave near a crowded beach in Basque country.
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Social media is not an apocalypse; it’s a printing press cubed
At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet
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Changing world: Associated Press accepts cash from interest groups
To survive the toll the internet is taking, historic news agency AP has been accepting cash from climate action groups for climate news coverage.
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For evolution, math prof says, the burden of proof is on materialists
In a short video, Granville Sewell explains why the Second Law of Thermodynamics shifts the burden of proof
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No, we aren’t really creating life in a test tube yet
The much ballyhooed SpudCell is impressive but does not live up to the media coverage in a number of important ways.
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What might a pioneer computer programmer say about AI today?
What would Ada Lovelace think of AI-generated music, videos, and text – or slop?
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Steve Meyer on why New Atheism collapsed
Also some intriguing stats on how religion is doing generally today.
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AI briefs overwhelm a British court: A tragedy of the commons?
Perhaps Britain will need to consider AI judges for non-criminal cases as well …
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Did you know there is a typeface that prevents AI data theft?
It’s a sound and welcome response to the current mass appropriation of everybody’s work without consent or compensation.
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What happens to your brain and mind under anesthesia?
Researchers are trying to develop better ways of preventing post-operative cognitive issues, a common problem in older patients.
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