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Issue May 2025
The Evidence for Functionalism—On Intelligence, Consciousness, and The End of Metaphysical Excuses
The Evidence for Functionalism—On Intelligence, Consciousness, and ...
We don’t need ghosts to explain minds, we need only to understand how they function and what they do.
Rob Manson
May 2
Understanding Autism: A Journey Through History, Science, and Society
Understanding Autism: A Journey Through History, Science, and Society
What the rising autism prevalence rates tell us about how our understanding and acceptance of autism.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
May 6
Issue April 2025
Backing the Blue with Science: What Research Says About Preventing Police Suicide
Backing the Blue with Science: What Research Says About Preventing Police Suicide
Modified American Flags with blue stripes do nothing against what is responsible for most law enforcement deaths.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Apr 1
How to Create a 4D Hyper-Fractal: The Magic Menger Hyper-Sponge
How to Create a 4D Hyper-Fractal: The Magic Menger Hyper-Sponge
The fascinating geometric construct and visualization of a hypercube that confines a fractal four-dimensional Menger sponge—a universal…
Sam Vaseghi
Apr 3
What Makes a Drug “AI-Developed”?
What Makes a Drug “AI-Developed”?
I’m building a database of AI drug candidates, and it’s more confusing than you’d think.
Bauris T, Ph.D
Apr 5
What the Study Really Said: A Guide for the Science-Curious
What the Study Really Said: A Guide for the Science-Curious
What you need to know before using a study to support your arguments during a scientific or policy debate.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Apr 11
Return of the Soil Bacteria
Return of the Soil Bacteria
Discovery of a new class of broad-spectrum antibiotic, a lasso-shaped molecule call lariocidin, in slow-growing soil bacteria.
Kevin Blake, PhD
Apr 12
Amazon’s Ocelot: a Cat (Qubit) to Change the Game in Quantum Error Correction?
Amazon’s Ocelot: a Cat (Qubit) to Change the Game in Quantum Error Correction?
How cat qubits and bosonic codes are reshaping quantum error correction — one photon at a time.
Paolo Molignini, PhD
Apr 16
The Curse of No Return: Why a Random Walker Rarely Finds the Same Point in Our Universe
The Curse of No Return: Why a Random Walker Rarely Finds the Same Point in Our Universe
The drunkard’s path, from Euclidean transience to Minkowski causality
Sam Vaseghi
Apr 19
Recent Population Changes in US Metropolitan Areas —Gainers and Losers 2020–2024
Recent Population Changes in US Metropolitan Areas —Gainers and Losers 2020–2024
Metropolitan growth comes with population loss between 2020 and 2024 in five of our largest metros
Jim Fonseca
Apr 20
The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Disease
The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Disease
Joy Milne’s unusual talent may help doctors diagnose diseases before symptoms hit
Bill Sullivan Jr
Apr 22
What Do Our Brains Tell Our Minds?
What Do Our Brains Tell Our Minds?
The Global Workspace Theory might increase our intelligence in at least 3 ways
Rick Mammone
Apr 25
Thimerosal in Vaccines: History, Science, and Public Health Impact
Thimerosal in Vaccines: History, Science, and Public Health Impact
How a harmless ingredient in vaccines became a favorite target of the anti-vaccine crowd.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Apr 26
Plastic Pyrolysis: Was Thermal Degradation the Answer All Along?
Plastic Pyrolysis: Was Thermal Degradation the Answer All Along?
This old-school process might just solve the modern plastic waste crisis.
Gavin Senaratne
Apr 27
The Health Cost of Scrolling: The Growing Body of Research on Screen-based Sedentary Time’s Effect…
The Health Cost of Scrolling: The Growing Body of Research on Screen-based Sedentary Time’s Effect…
On Doom-Scrolling, Binge-Watching, and the Human Body
Liv L. Dobbs
Apr 25
Stuck on Biological Glues: A Scientific Fascination with Natural Slime
Stuck on Biological Glues: A Scientific Fascination with Natural Slime
The mistletoe and velvet worm are models for human innovation
Elaine Medline
Apr 29
Open Up, Quantum!—How Open Quantum Systems Are Shaking the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Open Up, Quantum!—How Open Quantum Systems Are Shaking the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
The study of non-Hermitian quantum systems can be seen not as a departure from traditional quantum theory, but as an extension
Paolo Molignini, PhD
Apr 29
There’s a Phantom Limb Where Memory Used to Be
There’s a Phantom Limb Where Memory Used to Be
Search. Swipe. Forget. Welcome to “The Modern Experience of Cognitive Surrender”
Ricky Lanusse
Apr 30
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