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… here also explains other phenom- ena, such as categorical norms and ineffective altruism. These lead to social welfare losses, which is suboptimal from the group’s perspective. The categorical norm against murder, for example, leads to enormous waste when keeping alive, some- ti...

Alison Gopnik is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and development and was one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind.” She has spoken of the child brain as a “powerful learning computer,” perhaps from personal experience. Her own Philadelphia c...

…eaction, coupled perhaps with a lack of imagination about what a superintelligent machine could do. None hold water on closer examination. Here are some of the more common ones: e Don’t worry, we can just switch it off? This is often the first thing that pops into a layperson’s...

I said earlier that | wanted to lay the Seventh Sense onto the problems of war and peace and grand strategy - and while the insights our new instinct reveals are life- giving for business and eye-opening for culture, it’s to the devious and unavoidable problem of global order I w...

…t began with an itch in my leg. My left leg. But somehow | knew | wasn't supposed to scratch it. Although my eyes were closed, | was standing up. In fact, | was standing on a huge stage. And | was playing the violin. | was in the middle of playing the “Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor...

Research Article Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel,?***+ Yuan Kui Shen,° Aviva Presser Aiden,° Adrian Veres,’ Matthew K. Gray,* The Google Books Team,® Joseph P. Pickett,’ Dale Hoiberg,’” Dan Clancy,® Peter Norvig,® Jon Orwa...

224 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? 3D Printing Machine Research Laboratory. The laptop I am writing on uses the von Neumann architecture, and most modern computers evolved from it. By contrast, mobile phones are descended from the Harvard architecture developed by IBM and first...

and physiological features of a heart attack, including chest pain, abnormalities on the electrocardiogram, and elevated cardiac enzymes (reflecting damaged heart muscle) (2). The condition has variously been termed takotsubo cardiomyopathy, left- ventricular apical ballooning, m...

Morality Games 309 The effectiveness of subconscious cues of observability points to a primary role for reputations in our learned or evolved proclivities toward pro-social behavior. The large impact of subtle cues of observability, however, calls into question alternative expla...

epilepsy. Some say it is relevant to the likes of Apostle Paul, Sister Teresa and Joan of Arc. One evening in the human neurophysiology laboratory, | was invited by Dr. Heath to join him and several other brain scientists behind a two-way mirror to watch an interview with Donna...

…rmacology laboratory at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, Professor Charles Spooner and | used an audiographic oscilloscope to monitor the sounds of baby chicks whose peeps became higher in pitch and rate following injections of amphetamine. The earliest members of the metha...

…roducts now include labeling that, at a minimum, indicates the amounts of THC and CBD. Pesticides Controlling and disclosing the presence of pesticides in cannabis products is increasingly becoming a focus of regulators and producers. Even cannabis grown under organic condition...

Deep Blue York, watching a chess match. It’s no ordinary match. Two men sit opposite each other. One, a neatly suited figure, stares intently at the board. You can almost see the heat rising from his head as he processes the possibilities before him. The other, sits implacably...

…organize transport of fully supplied surgical teams and re-open the University Hospital in Port au Prince. In 2006, in close coordination with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her ministers, Robin established a medical mission to Liberia. She obtained private funding...

…biography of anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer, detail Kim's bold efforts to combat international HIV and tuberculosis epidemics with PIH: Some months after the official founding of PIH, [co-founder] Paul Farmer expanded the group, adding a fellow Harvard anthropology and...