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Today’s Cartoon: Lab Talk
Tuesday, May 19, 2020. By Kim Warp, with cartooncollections.com. A species that reacts to the new coronavirus as humans do may help us find new…
The Nigerian Fraudsters Ripping Off the Unemployment System
As millions of people around the United States scrambled in recent weeks to collect unemployment benefits and disbursements through the federal CARES Act, officials warned…
A Lawmaker Wants Fast Trains to Rev Up the US Economy
Accuse Representative Seth Moulton of loving trains too much at your peril. Yes, the Massachusetts Democrat worked for a time on a high-speed-rail project in…
Covid Is Accelerating the Rise of Faux Meat
But they still require employees to run the equipment. So as a precaution during the pandemic, Beyond Meat’s spokesperson says, they’ve implemented social distancing, for…
During Lockdown, Google Maps Gives My Son a Way Out
By the second week of lockdown, my 12-year-old son and I had developed a ritual that neither of us enjoyed. Three or four times a…
Those ‘Volcanic Flows’ on Mars Might Not Be Lava After All, But Mud
The northern lowlands and sedimentary regions of Mars are dotted with curious formations. Tens of thousands of conical hills, many topped with small craters, and…
Animals have mysterious ways of finding their way back home
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As Machines Get Smarter, How Will We Relate to Them?
Bicycling in a hilly, busy city like San Francisco provides a cognitive as well as a physical workout. I survive in traffic by flexing not…
All the Gear You Need to Throw a DIY Karaoke Party
Check the Mic Karaoke just isn’t karaoke without a microphone. But you’re not Rosalía, and your living room isn’t a recording studio—all you need is…
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence?
In the summer of 2009, the Israeli neuroscientist Henry Markram strode onto the TED stage in Oxford, England, and made an immodest proposal: Within a…