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Say Something: Chomsky on Language
A review of a collection of Noam Chomsky’s lectures on language.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
Jonathon Keats’s new book “You Belong to the Universe” is rooted in two orthogonal pictures of Buckminster Fuller.
Algorithms: The Future That Already Happened
In “The Master Algorithm”, Domingos envisions an individually optimized future in which our digital better halves learn everything about us.
Shaping the Future of War: The Important Questions
A look at two books, Christopher Coker's "Future War" and August Cole and P. W. Singer's "Ghost Fleet."
Why Are We So Eager to Hear “Placebo” Speak?
How important are placebo effects?
Information Emerges Naturally
Information successfully counters, if only for a few moments, the disordering entropy of the universe.
Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age
With the internet at our fingertips, this is the greatest time to be a curious person wanting to learn, and it is the greatest time to be a complete idiot.
Type Slowly: Word Processing and Literary Composition
Speaking Substances: Rock
Speaking Substances: Bodies
The Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud, who lived from 1822–1909, is distinguished by two unusual superlatives.
Speaking Substances: Ice
What can we learn about climate change by listening to a surprising sound: the sound of ice?
Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?
"The Future of the Professions" argues that standardization of legal filings, briefs, and judgments is the way of the future.
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