"People may believe in miracle cures in part because doing so helps to fulfill powerful psychological needs."
"It’s humbling... We did not foresee the levels of miscommunication we’d be faced with..."
"Isn’t there some all-powerful hammer—the proverbial silver bullet—that we can use to bring this spiraling problem…
"Even excluding conlangs (deliberately constructed languages like Esperanto or Klingon), new languages form…
"Using brain-machine interface technology to directly write in information to the brain... as in The Matrix... it’s…
"The systems underpinning air travel are so complex that change is inevitably incremental."
"It’s always a matter of hot debate in the research world."
"That would surely be the discovery and proof of global warming."
"Ultimately, the question before us now is not whether we can edit memory, but whether we should."
“Is it harder to be pummeled by fists for up to nine minutes or to stay afloat and score a goal while someone is…
"What makes this conspiracy theory so damaging is its adaptability."
"Specialists on ancient civilizations could each give you examples of music from their particular areas of…
“No one knows exactly how much information was accessed, because the government has been kind of cagey about it.”
Where’s all this new garbage going to go? Should we try to get rid of all the old trash, to make some room? Could…
You could argue that every second spent discussing humans colonizing the solar system is a second not spent…