Imagine one of your ancestors walking across the African savannah. The grass moves. There are two possibilities. It is the wind. Or maybe it is a lion. The relaxed hominin thinks: Probably the wind. The anxious hominid stops. The heart rate rises. Pupils dilate. Blood is redirected towards muscles. The brain begins calculating escape routes. […]
First, they took our liberty by attaching us to trackable mobile devices; next, they destroyed our attention spans with social media. And now, they are after our brains! Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be aptly described as the next big thing. Everywhere since the advent of ChatGPT, tech bros have been outdoing each other in releasing […]
In measuring environmental impacts on health, we sometimes can confuse morality and science. About ten years ago, Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Amherst College, MA, wrote an article about the effects of lead exposure on population health. Higher amounts of lead in the water supply unfolded a series of […]
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an inventor. His inventions—in various iterations from Homer to Pliny—include the axe, plumbline (architectural tool to measure how “plumb” or vertical a line was), glue (fish glue or isinglass, from the floating bladders of fish like sturgeon), and even a colourful dance floor (for Princess Ariadne). However his creative genius […]