More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given…
Patients have been turning to Google for diagnoses for years. Now, as artificial intelligence enters the medical world, their doctors may join them. Hospitals and research centers have announced partnerships with AI creators like Google and Microsoft for the last…
While open-source artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, the military has explored using more advanced AI versions for years, from gathering intelligence, acquiring targets, streamlining decision-making, and analyzing data. Of course, we’re not the only ones interested in using…
The world has been so crazy the past few years that something really wild might have snuck up on us. If you went to sleep in 2010, a mere 13 years ago, and woke up now, you’d see things you…
Some four hundred thousand visitors pass through the wrought iron gates of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague each year, most of them, we may safely presume, with the intention of viewing the institution’s most prized possession: Johannes Vermeer’s Meisje…
Despite what some “experts” are saying, artificial intelligence (AI) will not destroy humanity — at least not more so than any other powerful technology with the ability to create havoc if used by people with malicious intent. Airplanes, for instance,…
“Manuscripts don’t burn,” or so the devil Woland tells us in Mikhail Bulgakov’s darkly comedic novel The Master and Margarita. In Bulgakov’s magical realist literary universe, the devil might very well pluck a manuscript unharmed from a blazing stove, but…
Bad times for the rich of the Bilderberg Club. The masters of the world have been leaning toward Davos, which is the fashionable Masonic lodge, and Bilderberg is not what it used to be. Of course, the meeting being held…
