What Blade Runner got right about AI
The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted.A 1982 f...
Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons
Most of the brain's roughly 100 billion neurons are produced before birth. However, the small number of new neurons that continue to fo...
Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk
Older adults who received a shingles vaccine after entering a skilled nursing facility were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia o...
Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19
Van Bavel, J. J. et al. Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nat. Hum. Behav. 4, 460–...
Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are flailing
With congested, aging power lines and a densely developed landscape, the East Coast has few options for building l...
Researcher-in-the-loop
A model for AI-enabled UX research where the researcher governs.A UXR researcher governing AI (AI generated)For a few years now, the UX...
US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
The United States has never been one of the most ambitious countries when it comes to tackling climate change, but...
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models
Orwell, G. Nineteen Eighty-Four 69–70 (Penguin Books, 1949).Park, G. et al. Automatic personality assessment through social ...
Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster
A new analysis of biological aging across the human body suggests that both sleeping too little and sleeping too much are associated wi...
Quantifying the prevalence and impact of overreaching causal claims in social science
We present our methodology in two parts: first, the procedures for the descriptive analysis of academic articles...
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size dete...
No log off, How to become an AI Designer, vibe coded portfolios
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Trial-by-trial fluctuations in decision criterion shape confidence
Green, D. M. & Swets, J. A. Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics Vol. 1 (Wiley, 1966).Gold, J. I. & Shadlen, M....
Tennessee helped make nuclear history. It wants to do it again.
Luther “Sunny” Miller is nearly 80, but in his younger days, he worked at Aerojet, a rocket and missile manufa...