This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century.” In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of ...

As embodied AI moves from demos to deployment, my personal view is that the future will follow the evolutionary path. It better matches how technologies scale, how businesses work, and how our ...

Abstract: Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a population-based meta-heuristic imitating the hunting behavior of humpback whales, which has been successfully applied to solve many real-world ...

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More than a century after her murder, there’s still so much to discover in Rosa Luxemburg’s work as more of her writings become available in English. Brazilian writer Michael Löwy is one of the best ...

Psychedelic knowledge production over the past two decades has predominantly revolved around psychedelic science. However, in recent years an increasing number of humanities scholars and social ...

Near the edge of the Phoenix metro’s urban sprawl, surrounded by a wide expanse of saguaro-studded scrubland, Dream City Christian School is in the midst of a major expansion. Just a few miles away, ...

A ‘centenary golf day’ opened the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) in Mangaung, the city where the party was born in 1912. Its founders were often portrayed ...

Anti-evolutionism is a quintessential and particularly pernicious type of pseudoscience. Quintessential because it is both common and characterized by many of the classic hallmarks of pseudoscience.

“We think the kind of reactions we’ve described are probably what could have happened on early Earth,” says Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy. The reaction generates the building blocks of proteins and DNA: ...