Writing and producing content in the 2020s will be one of the most important skills for anyone. What was once the exclusive preserve of journalists and publishers is quickly becoming the backbone of every company in existence. Why? Because simply put, businesses are forced to write content to have any…

I enjoy all old technologies. I like the idea that they’re already obsolete, and will only increase in retro coolness over time. The Good If computers made in the nineteen nineties were capable of talking, they would complain incessantly about the hardware from the twenty tens. There are just too many drawbacks…

1 — Music can boost the release of endorphins. Research has shown that music can lift your mood and increase your natural feel-good chemical. Researchers have discovered that playing music is a stronger stimulus for the brain than sex, food, or money. My morning routine consists of playing upbeat music as…

The first time I heard about possible life thriving in the soil on the planet Venus, I was eight years old. We were studying our fifth-grade science textbook when a cartoon caught our eye. …

What is consciousness? A new idea about what consciousness is and why we have it reveals how we could recreate it, says neuroscientist Michael Graziano. All of us live with two contradictory everyday opinions about consciousness. We believe that: 1. When people stop behaving intelligently — after a blow to…

In an ingenious study, Richard Feynman, the Nobel physicist, formulated an answer to a puzzle that had been troubling him since his youth. At school, he had found himself unable to work out the answer to a sum involving three stick drawings. It looked as if the problem was insoluble…

The genetic theory of intelligence is based on three important facts: 1. Identical twins, who share all their genes, are more similar than fraternal twins, who share only about half their genes. If the environment were decisive, the fraternal twins should be more similar. 2. Studies of adopted children show…

I’ve been reading a lot about GPT-3 and text generation using machine learning recently. Following some links posted in a related Reddit article I ended up installing an app on my phone called AI Dungeon. This allows you to create your own text driven adventure partly driven by your prompts…

Rapid movements of a star in the center of our Milky Way presents a remarkable confirmation of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. …