by Swifty | May 23, 2023 | Articles
When was the last time you were so deeply involved in something that made everything around you fade away? Flow, a term first coined in the ’70s by psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi (pronounced Chick-Sent-Me-High-Ee) is described by him as: “Being completely...
by Swifty | Apr 20, 2023 | Uplift
DAY 752 — My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from ruining the occasional...
by Swifty | Apr 19, 2023 | Articles, Uplift
The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before. Kelso Harper: Have you ever wondered what songbirds are actually saying to each other with all of their chirping? Sophie Bushwick: Or what your cat could...
by Swifty | Apr 19, 2023 | Articles, Technology
Chips are fast approaching physical limits. Replacing them with minibrains might be the next step forward. Artificial intelligence is the tech catchphrase of the moment, but it may soon share headline space alongside another wild new computing field: organoid...
by Swifty | Mar 2, 2023 | Articles, Technology
“We can rewind to a previous scene or skip several scenes ahead.” An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the clock of a given system by taking advantage of the unusual properties of the...
