psychology Your monkey brain loves patterns more than actual rewards Ellsworth Toohey

psychology Can you see what is in this image? Mark Frauenfelder

COVID-19 GPT-3 is able to accurately predict a lot about COVID-19 Clive Thompson

writing Why speaking your journal beats typing it Ellsworth Toohey

AI abominations Utah police trust AI that identified a human as a frog Jason Weisberger

Technology New book teaches coding to toddlers through screen-free activities using comics and everyday craft items Mark Frauenfelder

art Meet the artist who turned his family's mask shop into a house of surreal horrors Popkin

Science Scientist identify the phonetic alphabet of whales Thom Dunn

video games Sega of America unionizes Grant St. Clair

privacy Sweaters that fool facial recognition Rusty Blazenhoff

surveillance Scientists create facial recognition network to mass surveil seals Thom Dunn

art Stunning new book of Scott Albrecht's deconstructed typographical art plus a gallery show in San Francisco David Pescovitz

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

gadgets 30-year retrospective of the Apple Newton Rob Beschizza

architecture Christopher Alexander, pioneering architect and creator of A Pattern Language, has died Gareth Branwyn

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intelligence This two-year-old just became youngest American member of Mensa David Pescovitz

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