Five existentialists walk into a barToday’s three puzzles are mini-dramas featuring well-known philosophers.1. Late Wittgenstein Continue reading…
What is life?
Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth – “The union of two energetic and informatic processes that can encode and pass on adaptive information forward through time. Using this definition vastly increases what can be …
イケアの家具の組み立てを、ロボットに手伝わせる：その研究は「人間と協働するマシン」を生み出す可能性を秘めている
イケアの家具の組み立てという大変な作業をロボットに手伝わせる研究に、米国の研究チームが取り組んでいる。その狙いとは、家具の組み立てという複雑な作業を自力でこなすマシンの開発ではない。ロボットが人間の行動を予測しながら動作し、うまく共同作業できるよう訓練することにある。
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Coronavirus live news: UK reports 32,253 new cases as Ho Chi Minh City prepares for lockdown
Panic buying as Vietnamese city prepares for lockdown; UK also reports 49 further deathsPCR Covid test firm with links to UK Labour accused of failuresUK scientists look at halving boosters to save vaccine for rest of the worldTrump booed after telling…
Just walk
Oppezzo designed an elegant experiment. A group of Stanford students were asked to list as many creative uses for common objects as they could. The more novel uses a student listed, the higher the creativity score. Half the students sat for an hour bef…
Intrepid brewer risks scalding to recreate recipe for long-lost medieval mead
The recipe for bochet was lost for centuries, until it was rediscovered in 2009.
Antibody test rollout could steer a targeted booster programme
UK scheme could also illuminate reinfection rates and immunity across different variants, say expertsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAntibody tests are to be offered widely to the UK public as part of a new programme which a…
Readers reply: why does everyone hate the sound of their recorded voice?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy do I hate the sound of my voice when it’s recorded, yet the same voice sound…
On Covid and climate we can achieve change – but we’re running out of time | Robert Reich
A simple breakfast with a friend presented a serious dilemma and pointed to both the need and precedent for actionOn Saturday morning I met a friend for breakfast at a local diner. We weren’t sure whether to sit outside because of the surging Delta var…
Dear Diary: how keeping a journal can bring you daily peace
Writing a diary is a great way to offload – and, if memory fails, it’s a wonderful window on the pastI still get funny looks from people when I mention that I keep a diary. Maybe the practice strikes them as shifty or weirdly old-fashioned. It’s true t…