Big Think
How many people should you date before settling down? Follow the 37% rule
4 min read · Apr 22nd · The 37% rule states that when making any major decision in life, reject the first 37% in a list and choose the next best that comes along.
The Pudding
We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.
5 min read · Apr 28th · Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
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Quanta Magazine
Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)
3 min read · May 9th · Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that’s technically possible is beside the point.
Shared by 280, including Pascal Sulser, Howard Getson
ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Science News
All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites
3 min read · Apr 26th · Scientists have detected adenine and guanine in meteorites for decades and seen hints of uracil. But cytosine and thymine had remained elusive.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 79, including Keith Frankish, Patricia Churchland, Alex Barrera, Ajit Pai, Jennifer Ouellette, Pascal Sulser
Longreads
Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures
9 min read · Apr 22nd · Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 425, including Christo Meid, Katja Evertz, Pascal Sulser, Ines Bieler
Vox
The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements
~15 min read · Mar 4th · Here’s what the past can tell us about the future of the pandemic.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 115, including Jennifer Ouellette, Barry Ritholtz, Pascal Sulser, Loralee Hutton
Quanta Magazine
Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices
7 min read · Feb 26th · For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.
Shared by 86, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Pascal Sulser
The Wall Street Journal
Live Question & Answer Event
2021-12-15 · Artificial intelligence, a product of human ingenuity, is assisting us in countless tasks in the fields of data analytics and science, medicine, finance and more. But what happens when AI begins to…
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The New Yorker
Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
9 min read · 2021-10-04 · Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy.
Reader View · Shared by 65, including Merkstatt, Paul Kedrosky, Steven Pinker, Columbia University, Martin Ford, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Jonathan Overpeck, Logical Analysis, Molly Wood, Pascal Sulser, Gerd Leonhard, Patrick Collison, John Hagel, Marc Abrahams
Quanta Magazine
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
4 min read · 2021-10-20 · Today’s powerful but little-understood artificial intelligence breakthroughs echo past examples of unexpected scientific progress.
Shared by 332, including Pascal Sulser, A. FNIX Hill, Carla Gentry
Vox
The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds
~12 min read · 2021-09-22 · The James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble. Here’s what it will see.
Reader View · Shared by 302, including Bob Violino, Christo Meid, John Hagel, Brian Resnick, Carla Gentry, David Papandrew, Christopher Mims 🤌, Brian Ahier, Thomas Power, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), AI, Pascal Sulser, Stefan Plattner, John Nosta
Big Think
Is human consciousness creating reality?
9 min read · 2021-06-07 · Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
Reader View · Shared by 150, including Pascal Sulser, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu
WIRED
If You Transplant a Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow?
3 min read · 2021-03-03 · In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon’s mission to preserve the soul.
Shared by 195, including Jane, Pascal Sulser, Brian Roemmele, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Lee Keyes, Vaughan Bell, Gregg Caruso, John Nosta, Lindsey Fitzharris
Scientific American
A Random Walk through the English Language
4 min read · 2021-06-11 · How a dispute between a religious believer and a confirmed atheist led to a major mathematical breakthrough
Reader View · Shared by 113, including Albert Ràfols, Uyên Đỗ, Pascal Sulser
bbc.com
The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics
~16 min read · From 2017 · Nobody understands what consciousness is or how it works. Nobody understands quantum mechanics either. Could that be more than coincidence?
Reader View · Shared by 79, including Bilal Aslam, Henning von Vogelsang, Christophe Jean, Manos Hatzimalonas, Patric Fornasier, Merkstatt, Pascal Sulser, Thomas Power
