Art+Science
Biology + Beyond
Cosmos
Culture
Earth
Life
Mind
Ocean
One Question
Quanta Abstractions
Rewilding
Science at the Ballot Box
Science Philanthropy Alliance
Spark of Science
The Animal Issue
The Climates Issue
The Kinship Issue
The Porthole
The Reality Issue
The Rebel Issue
Women in Science & Engineering
Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
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What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend?
Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don’t.
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Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials
Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works -
The Past Is a Ghost and the Future a Fantasy
This revelation allows us to live more fully -
“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”
Amanda Gefter talks about the exhausting and thrilling decade she spent writing about lost genius Peter Putnam -
AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals
But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind? -
Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed
AI-delivered evidence might be better at changing minds than you are
