Today, organisations such as Unesco, the UN body for education, science and culture, are grappling with how schools and universities can respond to rising misinformation and declining trust in ...

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“You probably looked like the little girl on the cover,” my husband commented. “I wasn’t alive in 1943, but she does look a little like me, I suppose,” I remarked as I looked at the pin-curled blonde ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

"I'm going to Disney World!" Football fans have been treated to this slogan for many a year now after the Super Bowl has been won. While Disney usually plays no part in the lead up to the Super Bowl ...

Enterprises are not short on AI ambition. What they lack is a governance model that keeps pace with how AI is actually being adopted. Across industries, CIOs are rolling out generative AI through SaaS ...

When I conduct teacher or student workshops around the American founding, I always lead with the same question: When you hear the words “Founding Fathers,” what are some thoughts that come to mind?

Say you’re mingling at a cocktail party, networking event, singles mixer or church reception. Some exchanges are pleasant enough. Others are taxing, if not downright painful. Then you get lucky and ...

Houston journalist Kate Murphy discusses the science behind human connection, which she delves into in her new book, “Why We Click.” Let's face it: the Internet age has been a dual-edge sword. Social ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...