April 2, 2025
The New NIH Director Has His Work Cut Out For Him
In the wake of Covid, trust in scientific and medical experts has eroded and become starkly polarized, threatening the...
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March 14, 2025
We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI
Part 3 of “Will AI Be Alive?” For now and for the near future, there is and will be no moral difference between...
March 14, 2025
AI Will Seem to Be Alive
Part 2 of “Will AI Be Alive?” As psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist notes, there are two fundamental...
March 14, 2025
Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence
Part 1 of “Will AI Be Alive?” “Burner of ashes” — there’s a job description one rarely sees these days. Yet...
March 14, 2025
Will AI Be Alive?
With the immediate landscape of AI shifting so quickly, it can be hard to keep the broader view in sight. In just the...
March 7, 2025
You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack
On November 6, 2024, the day after Donald Trump’s election victory, “the term ‘darkest timeline’ trended in...
March 7, 2025
A Spring in Every Kitchen
Johnny Appleseed used to be a staple character in old American children’s books. A ragged vagabond in the early...
March 7, 2025
How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate
Shortly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, rumors started to circulate that the virus that...
February 11, 2025
If the Reagan Airport crash was “waiting to happen,” why didn’t anyone stop it?
If you study air and space disasters, you will notice a recurring pattern: there are often well-placed observers who...
February 10, 2025
The Deeper Question Raised by the NIH Grant Overhaul
Last week, in a classic Friday evening news dump, the Trump administration set off one of those frantic controversies...