How Synthetic Brains Can Advance Robotics
Why try to create synthetic brains? Given the anxieties around artificial intelligence, why risk it?
Cat’s Eyes and Belch Water: 1930s Soda Jerk Slang from A to Z
Soda Jerk slang from 1934 and 1935.
The Promise of Sewage
Sewage might be the key in tracking diseases.
Origins of the Confederate Lost Cause
The mythos of the The Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
Money and Power at Strip Clubs
A new viewpoint on who holds the money and power in strip clubs.
Bastille Day
The origins and contested meanings of Bastille Day.
Suggested Readings: Religious Repression, Extending Empathy, Aliens on Earth
What religious repression really looks like in the Muslim world
NASA Sets Its Sites on Europa
NASA has decided on the nature and scope of a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, scheduled in the 2020s.
A Democratic Experiment Among Baboons
New research on baboon troops suggests that they employ democratic decision-making.
George Caleb Bingham: On Display in All His American Contradictions
An exhibition called "Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River," explores the artist in all of his contradictions.