How Actors Remember Their Lines
In describing how they remember their lines, actors are telling us an important truth about memory.
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Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'
Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.
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How Deep Does Life Go?
Geologist James Powell chronicles the evolution of our understanding of life in the deep-sea biosphere.
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For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
Eric Ghost's cleverly disguised LSD packaging mirrored the 1960s counterculture's psychedelic vision.
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J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
The renowned English writer reflects on the literature that shaped his imagination.
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An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship
Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.
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An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia
On Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and the rise and fall of LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
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Lessons From Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish | The MIT Press Reader
The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world.
Democratic Republic Of The Congo Belgian Congo Narcisse Leleup Donald Stewart Georges Marlier Karel Liem
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Stanisław Lem's Prescient Vision of Artificial Life
As with the best science fiction, Lem’s novel “The Invincible” has as much to teach us about our present situations as any futures we may face.
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"Hallucinating" AIs Sound Creative, but Let's Not Celebrate Being Wrong
The term “hallucination,” which has been widely adopted to describe large language models (LLMs) outputting false information, is misleading. Its application to creativity risks compounding that.
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