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Art critic Jerry Saltz: A "Francis Bacon of AI art" will emerge, but today's work falls flat

How to measure happiness: hedonia vs. eudaimonia

Philosopher Nick Bostrom's predictions on life in an AI utopia

Rhyme as Reason

The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer's alien spherules

5 books that shaped 21st-century philosophy

Stop saying that ChatGPT “hallucinates”

4 core strategies as AI changes the "meaning of work”

Can AI write authentic poetry?

In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop

A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)

“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale

Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter

New JWST results show we’re on a path to finding alien life

Researchers gave 200 people $10k each to study generosity

Speed reading is BS according to a study

New AI translates 5k-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly

Is math real?

Is Betelgeuse getting ready to explode?

To be a happier, more successful person, get off the “hedonic treadmill”

Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being reborn (2020)

Do protons contain charm quarks?

Information is the frontier for the study of life

Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?