On September 9, 1947, somebody working with one of the most advanced calculating machines in the United States opened its hardware and found an unusually literal explanation for a malfunction: a moth was trapped among the electromechanical...
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Modern elections are designed to look ordinary. Voters enter a booth, mark a choice, deposit a ballot and wait for arithmetic to produce a winner. In medieval and early modern Europe, choosi...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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Look down at a computer keyboard and you are looking at a museum whose exhibits still work. Some keys preserve decisions made by nineteenth-century typewriter manufacturers. Others carry sym...
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For years, the basic experience of generative AI could be reduced to a remarkably simple exchange: you type something, the machine types something back. Ask for a summary, a translation, an...
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Why AI Doesn’t Really Understand the World (But Reconstructs It) When people talk to ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant, they often say: “It understands everything.” The truth is mo...
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Stones that float on water? Sounds impossible—unless you’re in Rameswaram, India. Here, ancient stones defy gravity, floating on the surface like driftwood. Linked to one of Hinduism’s gr...
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Teledildonics and Virtual Reality: When Intimacy Meets Tech 🚀 Welcome to the Future of Pleasure Picture this: you’re thousands of miles apart, but you still “feel” your partner — l...
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What’s Inside a Black Hole? Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. They form when a massive star collapses under its own gravity, creating a region of space...
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Consciousness is something we all experience—it's the feeling of being awake, aware, and able to think, sense, and reflect. Yet when we ask why consciousness exists or how it arises, we run...
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