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AI Is the Black Mirror
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.
How Big Is Your Family?
Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today.
Star Siblings Tell Tales of Galactic Chaos
Stellar bodies from other galaxies are all around us.
Why Do Animals Adopt?
Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care.
Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?
Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Tech Agnostic.
An Archaeological Reckoning
Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas.
Voyagers Ready to Go Dark
Earth's most distant space probes prepare for their inevitable long night.
An Artful Seduction
Bowerbirds arrange flowers, dung, and shotgun shells to create elaborate love shacks.











