This may be owed to differences in the degrees to which the problems lend themselves to stories, or to stories that benefit from being told in a visual medium. But it may also be owed to a lack of familiarity…
“The Conger ice shelf was there and then suddenly it was gone,” said Andrew Mackintosh, an ice sheet expert and head of the school of Earth, atmosphere and the environment at Monash University in Australia. NASA MODIS “We need to…
We may live in a world of our own imagining, but it allows us to dance, sing, and do a thousand things that machines may never be able to do without programming. Complement A History of the World (in Dingbats)…
The prize is 500,000 Swedish Kroner (approximately ,000). David Kaplan, the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the winner of the 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Its…
Based on the hugely popular web series Critical Role, The Legend of Vox Machina is an animated adult fantasy that takes an illustrious group of adventurers across the fictional lands of Exandria. Featuring the voice talents of all the original…
I didn’t think this happened anymore, but apparently some philosophy journals still reject or decline to consider manuscripts because they don’t conform to the journal’s or publisher’s style requirements. As I said, I thought the practice of rejecting or declining…
James Martin/CNET The attack came as data breaches are on the rise across all industries. In 2021, data breaches jumped 68% year over year to the highest total ever, according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center. Microsoft confirmed…
One major aspect of this extended mind is our capacity for interoception — an awareness of the internal sensations of the body that gives us a kind of non-conscious knowledge, which we might term intuition but which is rooted in…
Discussion welcome. There are a few questions it would be useful to hear from readers on: One chair of a philosophy department writes in an email, “I look at grades every semester (one of the joys of being chair) and…
Wednesday will also feature Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie as principal of the supernatural school and Knives Out’s Riki Lindhome as Wednesday Addams’ new therapist. Getty Images/Frazer Harrison The show, helmed by Tim Burton and written by Al Gough…
A graduate student in philosophy wrote to share that he and another student had been recently booted from an edited collection under contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) because the press does not allow chapters to be authored solely by…
Raised by Wolves will satisfy those who want to spend a lot of time (nearly 10 hours) in a world brought to the screen with the help of Ridley Scott. Two androids, Mother and Father, attempt to establish an atheist human…