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A sweetish suite of machine translations of a pseudo-Swedish paragraph concocted on a whim by Douglas Hofstadter. The resulting gobbledygook reveals the true zombie-like nature of these highly vaunted and often virtuosic programs.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded jointly to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

Physicist Ulf Danielsson’s The World Itself pins the powerful, slippery imagination and its impressive ideas about consciousness to matters messy, impermanent state.

Astrid Söderbergh Widding is Professor of Cinema Studies and President of Stockholm University since February 2013. She is a member of the Academy of Europe, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. She has previously been Chair of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions and a member of the board of the Stockholm Environment Institute and has received numerous awards, including HM The King’s Medal in the 12th siz...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"

Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, and John Clauser share the highest award in physics for their research on quantum entanglement.

The nature of consciousness and the measurement problem in quantum physics remain two of the greatest mysteries in science. Is it possible they are connected?

Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Reuters By Niklas Pollard and Douglas Busvine STOCKHOLM/BERLIN (Reuters) - Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Britains Roger Penrose, professor at the University of Oxford, won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) for his proof that black holes are a direct c...