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Can I remember it differently?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:01:00 +0000

In this mediation on ‘après-coup’ in art, Cormac tries to understand why he’s still haunted by a scene from ‘Minority Report’

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Elusive but everywhere

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement

- by Daniel W McShea & Gunnar O Babcock

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2+ Hours Of Space Colonization’s Exciting Future

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Future Space

As the future of the Earth’s habitability remains uncertain, private and public institutions, such as Elon Musk’s Space X, look for extraterrestrial options where humanity can live. Watch as this exciting series explores humanity’s options for survival on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids and how we may attempt to colonize these areas!

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200 Incredible Space Facts That Will Expand Your Universe

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:48:00 +0000

Future Space

200 Incredible Space Facts That Will Expand Your Universe

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Breakthrough: Voyager 1 “Phones Home” After 40+ Years Using Backup Transmitter

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Future Space

NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object, recently reconnected with Earth using a backup transmitter last used in 1981. This legendary spacecraft, over 15 billion miles away, showcased remarkable resilience by autonomously switching systems. Discover how the Deep Space Network restored communication, allowing Voyager to continue sending data from interstellar space. Join us to learn about the significance of Voyager 1’s achievements and what this means for future space exploration.

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SpaceX Dragon moved to new parking spot on space station

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:48:00 +0000

Future Space

The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, moved their Crew Dragon capsule to another docking port to make way for a new cargo Dragon arrival.

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James Webb Telescope Discovers a Structure That Shouldn’t Exist!

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Future Space

When we detect structures in the depths of space that shouldn’t even exist on paper, who is wrong? The universe or our theories? For two years now, the James Webb Telescope has been using its infrared vision to explore the most distant and oldest structures in the cosmos.

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China’s Shenzhou-18 astronauts hands over Tiangong space station to new crew

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Future Space

The Shenzhou-18 astronauts “transferred control of the Tiangong space station” to the Shenzhou-19 crew on Nov. 1, 2024, according to China Central Television.

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Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Future Space

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Could the Moon Be a GIANT Alien Spacecraft in Disguise?

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:31:00 +0000

Future Space

Explore the fascinating theory that the Moon could be a massive alien spacecraft in disguise! Is it possible that the Moon is not a natural satellite, but rather an artificial construct created by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization? Join us as we delve into the mysteries of the Moon and examine the evidence that suggests it could be a spacecraft hiding in plain sight. From its peculiar orbit to its unusual composition, we’ll explore the strange features of the Moon that have sparked this intriguing conspiracy theory. So, buckle up and get ready to blast off into the unknown as we ask the question: is the Moon a massive alien spacecraft in disguise?

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Scientists Now Believe That a Star Might Have Come Closer to Earth than the Voyager 1 Spacecraft!

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Future Space

Are the constellations of the solar system due to a visit from a foreign star? The latest findings suggest that billions of years ago, a stellar guest flew so close to our home system that it changed the trajectories of thousands upon thousands of small celestial bodies! And possibly some of them were pulled out of their trans-Neptunian orbits and hurled into the interior of the solar system – where they were ultimately captured by the large gas giants as moons! But that’s not all: another exciting theory is now putting forward the idea that our home system was formed in the first place by a near-collision with another star!

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Europa Clipper Search for Life in a Radiation Death Zone.. But why?

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:22:00 +0000

Future Space

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most intriguing locations in our solar system: Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. This mission dives into the heart of a “radiation death zone” where harsh radiation belts surround the planet, yet scientists are pushing forward—why? Beneath Europa’s frozen crust, there’s a vast, hidden ocean, which could potentially harbor conditions for life. The Europa Clipper will navigate the radiation zone to gather essential data, searching for evidence of organic compounds, heat sources, and other life-supporting elements. What secrets lie beneath Europa’s icy shell, and could it reveal alien life thriving in extreme conditions? This mission could unlock answers about habitability far beyond Earth.

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The city of wisdom

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the field will open up to you

- by Jamie Zvirzdin

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Now I’m in the kitchen

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

The sensations of cooking stir up complicated questions about the relationship between a daughter and her mother

- by Aeon Video

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Colonies of former colonies

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism

- by Hafsa Kanjwal

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Deveaux Bank

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

What GPS tracking says about why the common whimbrel stops at a small spit of sand in South Carolina on its migratory route

- by Aeon Video

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The forces of chance

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory

- by Brian Klaas

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USA v Scott

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

Arrested for supplying water to migrants from Mexico, an aid worker’s trial challenges the boundary between law and morality

- by Aeon Video

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Settling accounts

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings

- by Rebecca Wilkin

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Rage against the machine

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does

- by Alva Noë

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The conquest of space

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

Before we ventured into space in 1961, we sent fruit flies, dogs and chimps to pave the way. This is their story

- by Aeon Video

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The fermented crescent

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Ancient Mesopotamians had a profound love of beer: a beverage they found celebratory, intoxicating and strangely erotic

- by Tate Paulette

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Jeu

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

This rollicking ode to modernity pairs Prokofiev with frenetic abstractions and Post-Impressionist animations of people at play

- by Aeon Video

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Life makes mistakes

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Hens try to hatch golf balls, whales get beached. Getting things wrong seems to play a fundamental role in life on Earth

- by David S Oderberg

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Heirlooms

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

A Bible, a piece of wood, a song – a poignant portrait of the everyday family keepsakes that can bridge generations

- by Aeon Video

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Sex and death

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Our culture works hard to keep sex and death separate but recharging the libido might provide the release that grief needs

- by Cody Delistraty

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The spectre of insecurity

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Liberals have forgotten that in order for our lives not to be nasty, brutish and short, we need stability. Enter Hobbes

- by Jennifer M Morton

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The FlyWire connectome

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

Mapping a fruit fly’s multitudinous neural pathways is a promising step towards a better understanding of the human brain

- by Aeon Video

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The script creator

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism

- by Bikash K Bhattacharya

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The first views of Tutankhamun’s tomb

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:01:00 +0000

Like ‘the property room of an opera house of a vanished civilisation’: the first thrilling glimpse inside Tutankhamun’s tomb

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Origins of creativity in the brain

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:35:38 +0000

New results could ultimately help lead to interventions that spark creative thought or aid people who have mental illnesses that disrupt these regions of the brain.

AI found to boost individual creativity -- at the expense of less varied content

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:21:27 +0000

A new study finds that AI enhances creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the 'usefulness' of stories -- their ability to engage the target audience and potential for publication. However, AI was not judged to enhance the work produced by more creative writers and the study also warns that while AI may enhance individual creativity it may also result in a loss of collective novelty, as AI-assisted stories were found to contain more similarities to each other and were less varied and diverse.

Creativity starts in the cradle, new research shows

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:55:07 +0000

New research indicates that babies can begin grasping complex language and ideas.

The AI paradox: Building creativity to protect against AI

Thu, 30 May 2024 17:26:51 +0000

Cultivating creativity in schools is vital for a future driven by artificial intelligence (AI). But while teachers embrace creativity as an essential 21st century skill, a lack of valid and reliable creativity tests means schools struggle to assess student achievement. Now, a new machine-learning model is providing teachers with access to high-quality, fit-for-purpose creativity tests, that can score assessments in a fraction of the time and a fraction of the cost.

Do epilepsy medications taken during pregnancy affect a child's creativity?

Wed, 29 May 2024 20:24:32 +0000

While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to those taking newer epilepsy drugs.

Your brain in the zone: A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain achieves a creative flow state

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:58:13 +0000

A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain gets to the creative flow state.

AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:47:58 +0000

In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought.

The fate of novel ideas

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:12:29 +0000

New research concludes novel ideas tend to generate conflicting evaluations because people lack common points of reference from which to judge them. Such mixed reviews lead to negative perceptions about the idea's usefulness, resulting in missed opportunities to drive innovation.

Air pollutants commonly found indoors could have an impact on creativity

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:45:28 +0000

Air quality in the office may affect our level of creativity at work. Scientists found that high levels of volatile organic compounds -- gases released from products such as detergents, pesticides, perfumes, aerosol sprays and paint -- affected the study participants' creativity when they were asked to build 3D models with LEGO bricks. The team estimated that reducing total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) by 72 per cent could improve a student's creative potential by 12 per cent.

Creativity in the age of generative AI: A new era of creative partnerships

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:09:39 +0000

Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) has propelled AI into the mainstream, raising concerns about job displacement and creative work. Experts now emphasize a need to focus on 'co-creativity,' the human-AI interaction instead. Extensive research is needed for comprehending co-creativity which is crucial for the future development of AI.

Want to increase resiliency in kids? Teach creativity

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:16:39 +0000

Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests.

Composition co-written by AI performed by choir and published as sheet music

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:45:30 +0000

Ed Newton-Rex, a creative AI pioneer and VP Audio at Stability AI, says that he’s become the first author to publish a piece of classical music that uses generative AI. The musician and entrepreneur wrote his “I stand in the library,” a piece for the choir and piano, to a poem produced by OpenAI‘s generative AI model GPT3. Written back in 2022, the 15-minute composition has been premiered at the Live from London online classical music festival, performed by a choral group VOCES8. The full version of the performance is available (behind paywall) on the festival’s website, but here’s an…

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Creative people enjoy idle time more than others

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:45:28 +0000

For those with creative minds, screen-free downtime can be fruitful and entertaining: Creative people use their idle time by letting one idea lead to another.

AI tests into top 1% for original creative thinking

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:40:51 +0000

New research suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity.

How to fulfil your creative potential: An unmissable talk at TNW Conference

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:00:34 +0000

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Warm-up time corrects creativity power imbalance

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:02:41 +0000

Power often boosts an employee's creativity because being powerful liberates the individual from constraints, such as worrying that their ideas will be rejected. However, new research shows that employees who are not in positions of power can become more creative when given time to 'warm up' to a task by engaging in the creative task more than once.

Make creativity part of study programs for scientists-in-training, experts urge

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:42:24 +0000

Bioinformaticians are focusing on the topic of creativity in research. They advocate teaching the importance of creative processes for the advancement of science especially in graduate study programs.

Changing feelings can boost creativity for conventional thinkers

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:14:19 +0000

Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative, a recent study suggests, if they can look at emotional situations in a different light. In a set of experiments, researchers found that conventional thinkers, those who rank low on openness to new ideas and experiences, came up with more creative ideas than peers after they practiced 'emotional reappraisal.' This means viewing a situation through another emotional lens, such as trying to see an anger-inducing event as one that is neutral or hopeful. The study indicates that creativity can be trained.

One-hit wonder: How awards, recognition decrease inventors' creativity

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:58:25 +0000

New research has identified one reason why some first-time producers struggle to repeat their initial creative productions while others go on to continually produce creative works.

Making sure workers have a 'good' day gives companies a competitive advantage

Thu, 19 May 2022 15:53:51 +0000

Researchers have identified five types of daily workplace experiences that influence employees' creative performance.