In December, we asked, “Can the White House ‘Mean Girl’” media be reformed?” We were looking at at journalist Mike Cernovich’s comments on the way that the White House press corps controls national political news in the United States: The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has the power to control seat assignments and credentialing. When you walk inside the briefing Read More ›
The scrolls were discovered in 1750 but efforts to read them destroyed them. So many were sealed and put away, in the hope that they could one day be read.
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It is interesting to see Darwin — given how revered he is among the social elite — subject to an unexpected attack.
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Science writer Elise Cutts tells us at Quanta that life’s raw materials abound in the universe: How simple chemistry led to complex living organisms stands among the great unsolved mysteries of science. The recent studies of asteroid and comet material add to the evidence that the first steps of the assembly process happen in space — and happen very readily. Read More ›
Generally, I found the Facebook fact checkers obtuse. But one recent incident really stands out.
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The problem is that, in an evolution-based scheme, someone must be the subhuman. Now who will researchers draft to fulfil the role?
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Despite hopes, say Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, common sense does not just “emerge” from a vast dump of data.
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Roger Kimball warns that the hydra of would-be internet censorship has many heads and may be regrouping under different parts of the alphabet.
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If Freedom from Religion Foundation refuses to accept sex binary in humans, why should schools take its notices warning against religion in school seriously?
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There is currently a “crisis in the field of misinformation studies” as disinformation experts are questioning the usefulness of their field.
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In a September article, readers were scolded for stereotyping cats’ aversion to water.
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The basic problem is that the new media – influencers, podcasters, Substackers, etc. – does not need the vast, costly corporate structures of traditional media.
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Bet you can guess who the Wired staff think is the worst agent of chaos — Elon Musk. But you might not guess why.
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Reporter Thomas Maxwell tells us they had little impact because so far “people are good at recognizing when an image has been created using the technology.”
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That counters our usual assumption that brains don’t get preserved. The researchers think nervous tissue may have qualities that permit long-term preservation.
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When we have finally decoded via high-tech methods what the dog means when he woofs and brings the leash, it may just be: “I really need to go out and pee…
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While both Rees and Pinker now favor the lab leak theory, as Wade reveals, they seemingly don’t want to make relations with China more tense by saying so.
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The claim that humans “struggle with collective efficiency” is nonsense. They were forbidden to communicate abstract ideas, which is how we solve such problems.
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Changes in administrations are often a means of getting rid of such rogue agencies.
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At Newsweek last Monday science writer Tom Howarth threw cold water last week on the idea that NASA had discovered a parallel universe.
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