5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (427+ words) This last week, Elon Musk made headlines for not playing along when he was interviewed at his Texas Gigafactory by The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes: Here’s the full wide-ranging interview (it’s nearly an hour and a half). But the part…...

18+ hour, 22+ min ago   (483+ words) Enter Rey: The Mary Sue and Genre Expectations To keep immersion/suspension of disbelief, the writer tends to utilize a combination of rules, promises, and payoffs so the audience can understand the stakes. The moment an audience member begins asking…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (448+ words) At IAI.TV, University of Colorado philosopher Dorothea Olkowski takes this on: “The brain is not a computer” IAI.TV July 21, 2026 The mistake, in her view, is assuming that consciousness is a function of a specific part of the brain,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (666+ words) This article by Casey Luskin is republished from Science and Culture Today. The paper, “A Critical Religious Education Perspective on Argumentation in Science and Religious Education,” notes that argumentation is a vital part of science education: Argumentation has become a…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (577+ words) Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and I think so: we are currently writing a book on the science evidence for them and the difference that it makes (Worthy 2027). In his article, the Messiah university leadership professor focuses on one aspect of the…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (519+ words) The octopus (also other cephalopods like squid and cuttlefish) is known to be quite intelligent. But in other respects, this group is an extreme outlier compared to other intelligent animals. At ScienceAlert, Jess Cockerill points out that its strange and…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (31+ words) mindmatters.ai Teading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (225+ words) Recently, I wrote about how researchers are reassessing their views of Neanderthals — from brute to beaut. More recently, from Friedrich Alexander University in Nurnberg, we learn, “New fossil finds indicate that early childhood development was surprisingly similar to that of…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (31+ words) mindmatters.ai Teading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (523+ words) This week I was replaced by AI. I saw it coming, but it didn’t make the news any easier to deal with. To be honest, it terrifies me for the future of our species. If that sounds a bit over…...