In the world of Internet technology, big changes are taking place – many of them right under our noses. Everyday devices all around us,...

As a general rule, adults know how to act. While it's certainly true that nobody's perfect, it's safe to say that the vast majority of us...

There are few among us who don’t have children in our lives. Maybe we are parents ourselves; maybe we have nieces and nephews. Maybe we...

Rebooting the Eagle As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s history-making lunar landing, it’s interesting to note...

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I The salt was back in the air, a happy consequence of his recent visit to his sister in Concord, during which he had de-acclimated to...

She stepped onto the elevator with blended excitement and apprehension; she’d waited a lifetime for this moment, but that did little to...

“Must be lonely in there.” She peered into her mother’s vacant eyes, and found herself mildly surprised that she didn’t regret saying it....

Westworld presents us with an unprecedented scenario for the evolution of artificial life: a crucible for its development that functions...

This is like That, Hofstadter demonstrated, is the core of we call intelligence – the acquisition and application of knowledge....

Let no one find surprising my interest in seeing Toy Story 4, latest in a long series of endearing and nostalgic films about the secret...

Pushing through the early morning stillness with a quiet yet disturbing presence, the Lion strode purposefully into the clearing. The...

I was invited to join a Facebook group this week, a group that is a place for parents who have lost a child. The invitation was unusual,...

As South America burns, as recession looms over the US, as the Senate Majority Leader continues to ensure that no legislation happens in...

We no longer grieve as we once did. As long as there have been men and women, parents and children, friends and family, human beings of...

It may interest you to know, gentle reader, that texting has far surpassed the phone call as humanity’s primary channel of remote...

We can all agree that deceiving others, particularly those close to us, is morally wrong – yet almost to the last, we have all done it at...

In his 2012 book The End of War, science writer John Horgan tells of Wesleyan University’s David Adams, a psychologist who polled his...

There’s this episode of classic Star Trek called “Day of the Dove”. The episode itself is not very interesting, but the idea behind it...

We’ve examined, more than once, Douglas Hofstadter’s concept of the “strange loop” - applied, within human beings, as little bits and...