"Why do we feel?" is a philosophical puzzle often addressed by zombie talk. Source: Thirdman/Pexels When philosophers talk about consciousness, zombies often come up. A philosophical zombie, unlike a ...

Have you ever wondered why we have Christmas trees? As we count down to Christmas, we look at the origin of the festive tradition, along with other popular customs. From the following the 12 days of ...

Ahead of his first-ever jury service, GBH’s Morning Edition co-host Jeremy Siegel asked legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about the history and the current-day practice of ...

Last month in San Francisco, AI entrepreneur Dr. Ben Goertzel invited me to publicly debate him on the future of machine intelligence at his event, The Ten Reckonings of AGI. Goertzel is best known ...

Taste receptors have been found far beyond the tongue, but do they help perceive taste or work like the ones in our mouths? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Last Thursday’s announcement of OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, which creates spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, deepens the concern that AI will replace large numbers of white-collar jobs. Do ...

Why do we have fingerprints? While impressive, it's not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy. Here's what the science says. Most people associate fingerprints with the ability to solve ...

In his years as a physics teacher, students often asked Mark Whalley why they had to learn the subject when most of them would never directly use it in their careers. Having never been satisfied with ...

“Life is misery, and it would have been better not to have been born. But who is so lucky? Scarcely one in a hundred thousand.” This Jewish witticism, (first quoted by Freud,) is the epigraph of David ...