Why don't people return their shopping carts?(behavioralscientist.org)

12 points by ohjeez 11 months ago | 7 comments

What's a Brain?(clairelevans.substack.com)

26 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why Our Brains Crave Ideology(nautil.us)

7 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 1 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

I know why the mathematicians weep(derekthompson.org)

342 points by RickJWagner 11 days ago | 561 comments

Derek Thompson essay on his Substack about technological grief, using mathematicians' reactions to AI advances as a lens.

How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories(quantamagazine.org)

15 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)(3blue1brown.com)

331 points by nivethan 3 years ago | 88 comments

A 3Blue1Brown lesson page with an embedded video explaining why plotting prime numbers in polar coordinates produces spiral patterns.

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns(geohot.github.io)

601 points by ppew 7 months ago | 402 comments

A blog post by geohot arguing that social media fear about falling behind on AI agents is nonsense and urging people to focus on creating value for others.