Aeon

[:es] Our brains predict the outcomes of our actions, shaping reality into what we expect. That’s why we see what we believe [:]

[:es]There’s nothing exceptional about fast evolution. Rapid change, transient or lasting, simply reflects the intensity of selection, the strong action of Darwin’s ‘hostile forces of nature’, including predation, heat, cold, parasites.[:]

[:es]Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research[:]

[:eu]The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities[:]

[:eu]Just how large the Universe actually is never fails to boggle the mind. We say that the observable Universe extends for tens of billions of light years, but the only way to really comprehend this, as humans, is to break matters down into a series of steps, starting with our visceral understanding of the size…

[:eu]The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities[:]

[:en]Does history unfold randomly and by chance, or are there underlying patterns and deep connections between its parts?[:]

[:en]It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be[:]

[:en]Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyse data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?[:]