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Where Do Dreams Come From? The Brain Rewrites Life
20+ hour, 14+ min ago (454+ words) The Brain Turns the Day Into a Dream You wake up and remember only a broken image, a strange place, or an emotion you cannot explain. New research suggests that dreams are not random chaos. So where do dreams come…...
Prediction and Power. The New Oracles Rule
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (771+ words) The New Fortune-Tellers Sell Us Fear Prophecy and authority have walked together for thousands of years. Predictions were never simply about knowing the future. They were about power over those who believed in them. Today, prediction and power meet in…...
Finding Love Online. Why It Feels So Hard
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (350+ words) The Algorithm Does Not Want You to Stay Finding love online was supposed to make intimacy easier. Dating apps promised to simplify life, remove chance, and help us find the right person. Instead, algorithms often push us into a loop…...
Alzheimer's Symptoms. Why Memory May Hold On
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (475+ words) When the Brain Is Ill, but Memory Holds On The brain may already show changes typical of Alzheimer's, while memory still works. New research from the United States helps explain why Alzheimer's symptoms do not appear in the same way…...
Borges on the Mind. The Trap of Knowing Too Much
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1264+ words) The Mind in the Labyrinth For Jorge Luis Borges, the mind is a labyrinth, and thinking means wandering through it. His stories remind us that every attempt to close the world inside a system is doomed to fail, and that…...
Why Propaganda Works. Old Images Still Wound
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (622+ words) The Poison in Old Pictures Historical propaganda can manipulate human emotion decades after its creation. Images that glorify dictators, it turns out, can soften the negative feelings attached to past atrocities. That is why the question of why propaganda works…...
Golden Orb in the Ocean. The Mystery Is Solved
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (648+ words) The Strange Gold Thing Waiting in the Dark The golden orb in the ocean was discovered more than 2 years ago, and no one knew what it was. Nicknamed the golden orb, it became one of the great mysteries of the…...
End of ownership. The subscription trap
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (265+ words) The Age of Access and the Vanishing Self First, we paid for films and music. Then for software, cloud storage, apps and device features. Now more and more things are no longer truly ours, even though we pay for them…...
Ancient life on Mars. NASA found a clue
1+ week, 1+ day ago (729+ words) Was There Life on Mars? NASA Found an Important Clue Researchers have spent years searching for evidence of ancient life on Mars. Now NASA's Curiosity rover has detected complex organic molecules in an ancient rock on the Red Planet, a…...
Generation AI. Who is raising these children?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (478+ words) Generation AI Is Growing Up. Who Is Really Raising These Children? Children born after 2022 will not remember a world without Chat GPT. Chatbots explain emotions to them, generate bedtime stories and suggest solutions. Is Generation AI being raised by artificial…...