1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (646+ words) At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social, political, and economic upheaval across the globe.” His solution? In a 6000-word essay,…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (617+ words) First, getting past the drama: Data centers have a huge energy footprint. But so do cars and planes, if we look at the total environment bill for each. And there is no serious move to abolish either of them on…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (525+ words) There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is making big breakthroughs in math. The most recent claim concerns Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Theorem1 says that it’s impossible to find three whole numbers…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (140+ words) Here’s a discussion between Dr. Luján Comas and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, dubbed for Spanish speakers, in conjunction with the translation of The Immortal Mind: (2025) into Spanish — La mente inmortal (2026). A special feature of the Spanish translation is an introduction by…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (211+ words) The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) is sponsoring a webinar, “Revisiting ‘Computers, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality’ in Light of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas,” on October 10, 2025, 11:00 am to noon EST. Magnifica Humanitas (25 May 2026), Leo’s first…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (736+ words) Exceptional nerds can uncover solutions that others overlook. Test yourself. When her husband needed to have his gallbladder removed, she refused to do the operation. I have actually told you her unusual name in the information above. What is it?...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (448+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is a staple of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claims that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (838+ words) There has been a fair amount of political activity, pro and con, around the big new data centers, proposed to handle the increased AI traffic — and it all sprang up rather suddenly. Last Thursday, X’s Global Government Affairs unit announced…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (727+ words) Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question. Generally speaking, bubbles exist when share prices and valuations…...