rogersbacon

To grow as scientists, students need to conduct authentic research, yet they rarely have access to the infrastructure that supports such work and makes it possible. The Society of Teen Scientists (SoTS) was created to provide young scientists with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to conduct and disseminate...

“Agnus” by Konstantin Korobov I. > Bakkalon is a key figure in George R.R. Martin’s 1975 short story “And Seven Times Never Kill Man!”. > > Centuries in the future, humanity had spread to colonies on hundreds of different planets and lived in relative peace, but was then invaded by...

I’ve long been fascinated by eponymous “laws”—those pithy, often sarcastic observations or rules of thumb that capture some universal truth of human experience. Murphy’s Law is probably the most well-known example. Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” There are many lists of these laws online, but...

From Becoming Animal (David Abrams, 2010): > Many months earlier, in a village near a wild forest preserve on the south coast of Java, I’d been warned by the local fishermen that there was an unusually bold individual among the bands of monkeys that roam the forest canopy, a particular...

Abstract AI is the most rapidly transformative technology ever developed. Consciousness is what gives life meaning. How should we think about the intersection? A large part of humanity’s future may involve figuring this out. But there are three questions that are actually quite pressing, and we may want to push...

Abstract We propose a novel model for teaching and learning called Decentralized Autonomous Education (DAE for short). DAE exploits the dual principles of freedom and responsibility, meritocracy and inclusivity, privacy and transparency in the educational process. It also fits well the philosophy of blockchain technology, and more generally of Web3...

Abstract Modern East Asian populations plausibly retained extensive psychological adaptations in general personality traits and social dynamics to arctic environments, from ancestral Northeast Asian populations' late Pleistocene habitation of arctic and subarctic North Eurasia, prior to migrating southwards into East Asia in the Holocene. The first cross-cultural study between modern...