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Who Will Design the Future?
AI will be staggeringly diverse. Its developers should be, too.
We’re More of Ourselves When We’re in Tune with Others
Music reminds us why going solo goes against our better nature.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Meerkat
What the rare cooperative species tells us about ourselves.
Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants..
Playing Video Games Makes Us Fully Human
No other media meets our emotional and social needs like electronic games.
Why We Need Court Jesters in Space
Behavioral scientists explain why Mars missions need humor.
When We Were the Cosmos
The director of the Griffith Observatory revisits the dawn of astronomy.
The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science
What a 16th-century scientist can tell us about the fate of a physicist like David Bohm.