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Can we upload our minds onto computers?
Is the singularity approaching? Science and philosophy have raised possible answers. We can now scan human brains on the levelContinue Reading
Life and Logic: “Hegel’s Concept of Life” by Karen Ng
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of philosophy’s giants, and his influence on the science of logic and self-consciousness can’tContinue Reading
Books about Nothing: On the death of the novel
What use do books have nowadays? In The Decline of the Novel, author Joseph Bottum paints a grim portrait. TheContinue Reading
Neurons that work together, explained
A theoretical physicist can sit at a computer with a pen and paper may not seem like a likely candidateContinue Reading
The Journalist’s Guide to Statistics
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain, “My Autobiography” Journalists need a good understandingContinue Reading
The Emergent Beauty of Mathematics
Like a flower in full bloom, nature reveals its patterns shaped by mathematics. Or as particles collide with one another,Continue Reading
How to Create Interactive Network Graphs (from Twitter or elsewhere) with Python
In this post, a gentle introduction to different Python packages will let you create network graphs users can interact with.Continue Reading