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Bloomberg special issue on the periodic table and the elements. Machine behaviour. A day in the life of a tree. Excerpt from The Understory. The insect apocalypse is driven by a 50x increase in toxic pesticides. If Sapiens were a blog post. J.M Coetzee on Australia’s shame. Mosquitoes. And more.
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Dancing with the ancients. The number of roles in theatre plays has decreased over time. How digital advertising markets really work. Time is running out for sand. Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint. The first humans to reach the Americas. Pentaquarks. Extremophiles. Sloths. And more.
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Why science needs philosophy. What are the limits of deep learning? In defence of the black box. Cats know their names. Using physics to make sense of the brain's tangled networks. Stadium shows in the age of mechanical reproduction. The new physics needed to probe the origins of life. And more.
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Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history. Walking helps us think. Weekend recovery sleep doesn't work. Why anti-conformists end up looking the same. An interview with Javier Cercas. Denisovans may have mated with modern humans as recently as 15,000 years ago. And more.
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A world without clouds. Interview with the CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund. Why zebras have stripes. The universal decay of collective memory and attention. David Salle on Andy Warhol. Manhattan‘s new needle skyscrapers. Behemoth. Harold Brodkey: yesterday’s genius. Sleep science. And more.
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Is ancient DNA research revealing new truths or falling into old traps? Robots use imagination to learn concepts. Poons vs Koons. Towards a general theory of neural networks. The concept of the corporation. A robot reveals how ancient reptile moved. Frederick Eberhardt about causality. And more.
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Albert-László Barabási on the 5 universal laws of success. Ocean warming is accelerating. Steven Strogatz on the future of AI. The conceptual limits of machine learning. Tickets in London's West End are not a rip-off. Tattoos are copyrighted. How radical 1960s architecture got it so wrong. And more.