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See the Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes Documenting the Lunar Surface
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (141+ words) 1:00 PM CDT on October 9, 2026 And they got a second set of screens as well. NASA issued the team Microsoft Surface Pro tablets so they could quickly and easily annotate images. (If you’re curious why they didn’t go with iPads, the…...
How Does Blood Splatter in Space?
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (433+ words) Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes. 3:59 PM CDT on March 15, 2024 Humans are increasingly pushing into space: NASA’s Artemis program plans to return astronauts to the moon and establish a…...
Creating Fake People is a Terrible Idea
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (631+ words) So why is a company pursuing digital avatars with such gusto? 7:00 AM CDT on October 7, 2026 A few days ago the “human computing company” Tavos announced a product called Griffin. Griffin is a “human interaction model.” Supposedly, it is the first…...
A Dispatch from the Trenches of Algorithmic Living
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (214+ words) 1:00 PM CDT on September 28, 2026 This excerpt is reprinted with permission from NYU Press. It is adapted from Power in Listening: The Sounding Out! Reader. Sometime in 2021, I opened the Spotify app, navigating my way to a recent playlist I had…...
Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (541+ words) Your robot butler can’t do a Magic Eye poster… yet 1:00 PM CDT on October 6, 2026 Human vision is imperfect. Our eyes do not always represent the world exactly as it is. We have blind spots. We see after-images. We are tricked…...
Where Did the???Social Magic??? Go?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (930+ words) A conversation with an Icelandic sociologist about the paradox of connection in our digital age 1:06 PM CDT on October 1, 2026 Our digital age presents a paradox, says Icelandic sociologist Vidar Halldorsson. Though humans are more connected and accessible to one another…...
This Real-Life Sea Monster is Controlled by Joysticks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (245+ words) Its unique hypnotic movements are inspiring roboticists 9:00 AM CDT on October 1, 2026 Sailors spotting sea serpents might not have been telling tall tales. The oarfish, with its blank eyes, feathered crest, and snakelike body that can grow more than 25-feet long,…...
???Morally Binding??? AI Safety Pledge Mocked
1+ week, 5+ day ago (452+ words) AI Safety experts seem to agree the companies can’t self-regulate, and the new White House accord lacks teeth 1:00 PM CDT on September 30, 2026 On Tuesday, President Trump announced a voluntary agreement with the heads of six major AI companies to keep…...
Let???s Do Some Leaf-Peeping From Space
2+ week, 2+ day ago (127+ words) Fall foliage from hundreds of miles up 5:00 PM CDT on September 25, 2026 Fall is officially here. Thanks to the roughly 23-degree tilt in Earth’s axis, the days are now growing shorter and colder in the northern hemisphere. That means deciduous trees…...
Isaac Asimov Showed Us How to Avoid the AI Apocalypse
2+ week, 4+ day ago (277+ words) But the famed sci-fi author’s 80-year-old rules of robotics may need some updating 11:00 AM CDT on September 24, 2026 A law resembling this fourth law—requiring disclosure that a bot is not human—actually took effect in the European Union in August…...