top of page
Want Concierge Medicine? AI Perhaps Can Deliver It
It can analyze years of a patient’s history and flag risks in a way a physician can’t during a brief visit.

SciArt
Aug 151 min read
Want a happier marriage? Study suggests one simple habit
Research has long shown that exercise benefits both physical and mental health. Now, a new study from researchers at BYU suggests that it may also strengthen marriages, especially when couples exercise together.

SciArt
Aug 151 min read
Why We Avoid The Very Thing That Makes Us Happy At Work
Despite the continual rhetoric on workplace culture and inclusion, I consistently see managers struggle with employee engagement. We pour millions into complex talent retention initiatives, yet we overlook the simplest, most evidence-based tool in our arsenal, talking to each other.

SciArt
Aug 151 min read
The science of stress, coping, and healthy emotional regulation
A blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions with clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour.

SciArt
Aug 151 min read
Looking at consciousness from 19 different vantages (UII, ...and wrestling, ...with Claude)
DM Coffee in hand, greetings! What are your perspectives, up and down, of the "19 Ways of Looking at Consciousness" (Patrick House); and afterwards consider our plethora of our related conversations, including the 7 Tenets of 4 Chairs.Life. Coffee met and raised. The book on its own terms. House's real achievement is formal, not doctrinal. The whole book is a set of retellings of a single moment recorded in a one-page 1998 Nature paper, "Electric Current Stimulates Laughter

SciArt
Aug 1432 min read
As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope
The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime
Major technological change produces major social change. Thanks to artificial intelligence, we are arguably on the brink of a productivity miracle capable of radically improving people’s lives — but only if we act now to prevent A.I.’s worst impacts.

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns
The White House revives “privateering for the digital age” by authorizing cyber firms to strike foreign targets. Related

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
Men also want it all
Does anyone actually miss the ‘50s?

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
The most underappreciated achievement in theoretical physics
Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
A Green Light for Crooks
The U.S.Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

SciArt
Aug 141 min read
If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks
If there were ever reason to doubt the dangers of unrestrained artificial intelligence development, those reasons have gone out the window in the last few weeks. Related: is it time to proceed more thoughtfully, by applying "constructive paranoia"

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All
On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver’s license. She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letters when Senate Bill 244, a hastily passed piece of legislation, invalidated driver’s licenses on which the gender marker did not match the holder’s sex as assigned at birth. “Additionally, please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentia

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
UII w/Claude about the prior post.
DM Howdy partner. What's your thoughts or perspective on this "stacks" article? Howdy. It's a light, well-made column, and the etymology is clean — hay, then any heap, then re-specified per domain. His call that the jewelry use is the finest is good taste, too, because that example is exactly where the piece trips over its own thesis. The fumble: Abebe's stated claim is that "stack" has gone fully abstract, "a pile of whatever you want." But none of the uses he actually savo

SciArt
Aug 139 min read
How ‘Stacks’ Went From Bodybuilding and Computing to Describing Everything
The 20th century was different from today in many, many ways, but let’s focus for now on a simple one: Back then, bodybuilding and computer science seemed like profoundly different worlds. Who among us imagined that they would soon start to feel culturally and intellectually adjacent? But maybe the end of the millennium offered one tiny hint: These were the two fields in which it was normal to ask what somebody’s “stack” was.

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth
The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
Your Mouth Could Hold the Secrets to a Longer and Healthier Life
As scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline, a push is under way to treat the mouth as a source of bodywide inflammation

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos
Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks
Department of Homeland Security described the gloves as a “de-escalation device,” but critics said they could encourage agents to use more force.

SciArt
Aug 131 min read
bottom of page