Who says toddlers lack empathy?
A two-year-old's approach to the trolley problem
Structural analysis of Voynich Manuscript reveals features of natural language
Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if it… READ THE REST
Which has the larger carbon footprint: SSDs or HDDs?
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Important science still underway at the Journal of Imaginary Research
The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes fiction presented in the form of formal research abstracts. The imagined research abstracts, and their imagined researchers were constructed by real academic staff, research… READ THE REST
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Don't stay at an Airbnb without bringing this $40 device
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