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I’ve NEver set up a turntable before. Sure, I’ve used some, but they were all-in-ones that had speakers and preamps built in, and I had friends who set up the arm balance. A fully fledged turntable setup has always sounded intimidating to me. A touch of fear didn’t stop me from trying, though. The House …
House of Marley Stir It Up Lux Review (2023): Made for Beginners Read More »
“In the future, they should not make these kinds of announcements until they actually do it,” says Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics. Global plastic production has been projected to double in the next 20 years, according to the World Economic Forum, and yet in the US, for example, advocates claim that the vast majority …
robots have been depicted in movies for more than a century, but the anxieties about artificial intelligence that they used to convey are no longer theoretical. There’s a bill in US Congress right now to stop AI from gaining control of nuclear weapons, and roughly a dozen militaries around the world are investigating the possibilities …
‘The Creator’ Review: It’s AI That Wants to Save Humanity Read More »
[CLIP: Music] Timmy Broderick: So I’m sitting inside this stone clock tower in the small town of Castellaro Lagusello in Italy. It’s pretty old, like 800 years old. I had found a nook in this tower where I could sit and record this ethereal music coming from the speaker in front of me. And through …
Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses Read More »
As young lawyers, working out of the dusty attic in an aging townhouse, a few of us were given a simple but monumental task: figure out how to make a new law—the Clean Air Act—work. The struggle for clean air we engaged in five decades ago is, sadly, relevant once again as the Environmental Protection …
EPA’s Critics Recycle Nonsense about Cost to Cut Pollution Read More »
Artificial intelligence has pervaded much of our daily life, whether it’s in the form of scarily believable deepfakes, online news containing “written by AI” taglines or novel tools that could diagnose health conditions. It can feel like everything we do is run through some sort of software, interpreted by some mysterious program and kept on …
“Find your passion!” Whether we hear it from our parents, teachers, bosses or college commencement speakers, this injunction is woven into the fabric of American culture. It is well-intended and meant to inspire. But is it good advice? “Finding” a passion implies that it already exists fully formed and is simply waiting to be discovered. …
Stop Trying to ‘Find’ Your Passion–There’s a Better Way to Love What You Do Read More »
On an early evening in September, 16 dark, hairy legs were kicking up dust on the prairie floor in La Junta, Colo. A male Oklahoma brown tarantula was locked in a heated mating match with a female twice his age. Although weary, he plunged a set of hooks that had recently grown on his front …
Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their Life to Impregnate a Mate Read More »
Editor’s Note (9/29/23): This article from March 10 reported on a study claiming the discovery of room-temperature superconducting material that was published in Nature. Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that nearly three quarters of that paper’s co-authors had contacted the publisher to ask that the study be retracted because it had flaws. …
Controversy Surrounds Blockbuster Superconductivity Claim Read More »
CLIMATEWIRE | EPA was already facing a mad dash to complete climate rules in the next six months. A government shutdown could make that harder. The agency has run behind schedule to propose and finalize regulations throughout the Biden administration, and the government’s looming closure threatens to make it harder for the agency to complete work …
