Aeon
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[:es] Now you see it [:]
Our brains predict the outcomes of our actions, shaping reality into what we expect. That’s why we see what we believe
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[:es]When evolution is not a slow dance but a fast race to survive[:]
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, […]
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[:es]Science is broken[:]
Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research
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[:eu]How plagues really work[:]
The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities
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[:eu]How plagues really work[:]
The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities
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[:en]Laws or comets?[:]
Does history unfold randomly and by chance, or are there underlying patterns and deep connections between its parts?
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[:en]The real problem[:]
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be
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[:en]Crimes of the future[:]
Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyse data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?
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[:es]Absolute English[:]
Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost?