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- Generative AI will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?
- The thorny ethics of planetary engineering – terraforming alien worlds is a complex issue.
- The archaeology journalist whose adventures are stranger than fiction.
- Long-term meditation might change your poop, hinting at effects on the gut–brain axis.
- Dragons: an (un)natural history.
- Related: Dinosaur bones became griffins, volcanic eruptions were gods fighting – geomythology looks to ancient stories for hints of scientific truth.
- Shark-ray hybrid? Aquarium suggests shark may have impregnated its lone stingray.
- In the Canary Islands, a mysterious phantom isle haunts local imagination.
- The Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
- This funeral home will preserve your tattoo when you die.
- New DNA testing reveals who made ancient stone tools – the study suggests that human ancestors expanded across Europe faster than previously thought.
Quote of the Day:
Artefacts made of more perishable materials – such as wood, bamboo or leather – survive only under unique conditions. The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood.
Yuval Noah Harari, in ‘Sapiens’
