Tag: Philosophy
If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire...
Elay Shech, Auburn University
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had “successfully restored...
The ‘courage to be’ in uncertain times − how one 20th-century...
Mordechai Gordon, Quinnipiac University
Over the past few weeks, as negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine drag on, I’ve...
Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about...
John P. Nelson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney can produce text, images...
The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
“Who wants to live forever?” Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen’s 1986 song of the...
Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a...
Lorraine Besser, Middlebury
Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you...
Medieval theology has an old take on a new problem −...
David Danks, University of California, San Diego and Mike Kirby, University of Utah
A self-driving taxi has no passengers,...
Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can...
Georgi Gardiner, University of Tennessee
What is love? Could those feelings you label as love be something else?
400 years ago, philosopher Blaise Pascal was one of the first...
David Hoinski, West Virginia University
In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
