When Is a Cannibal Not a Cannibal?
Everybody’s quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought the same about...
A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke
The day after Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg on social media to “a cage match” this month, Dana White, president of the Ultimate...
2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off
On a muggy June night in Greenwich Village, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium....
How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue
Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying...
Study Finds Rise in Texas Births After Abortion Law. But Questions Remain.
For more than a year, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, pregnant women have faced a radically altered landscape...
