Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...

The radical right leapt on the opportunity to turn the UO administration’s misadministration into a hullabaloo over freedom of religion and speech rights, which places religious dogma above empirical ...

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Author: Pierre Mallia, Publisher Kite Group, 2025 I am extremely thankful to Professor Pierre Mallia for asking me to write an introduction to his collection of essays entitled The ...

There is no doubt that 2025 will be remembered as the year of slop. A popular term for incorrect, weird and often downright ugly AI-generated content, slop has rotted nearly every platform on the ...

He was cast as a real-life Dr Frankenstein, a scientist whose ego had led him to tamper with human life. After more than a ...

Over the weekend, I took a 7-mile-long walk along the Augusta Canal near my parents’ home, in the city where I was born and grew up. I was in town to get together with my mom, dad and sister — my ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Scientists themselves might benefit from reading Scientific American! In the July/August 2025 issue, there are two Advances ...

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