Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky
Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years.
For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science
They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit.
What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?
The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege.
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers
René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number.