Primitive Technology: Charcoal retort experiment
AdultsExperimentsTechnologyI tested a charcoal retort based on the Hookway retort method using only primitive materials.
Yuval Noah Harari On the Future of Humanity
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceHistoryHuman...In this edition of The Big Interview: Renowned historian, philosopher, and futurist Yuval Noah Harari talks with WIRED Japan Editor-in-Chief Michiaki Matsushima about the nexus of artificial intelligence, information, and the human experience.
Sam Harris: Breaking the thought trap of anger
AdultsEmotionsMindfulnessPsychology"You can't possibly exaggerate how much better it is to live in a peaceful, orderly society, and to be wealthy, and healthy, and surrounded by people who you love and who love you, and to be surrounded by increasingly happy strangers who just want to cooperate with you."
What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?
AdultsHealthNeuroscienceThe number of people with Parkinson's Disease has doubled in just 25 years, but its rise has been much worse in some places than in others.
Wagner writes about how the he worked and studied in Vancouver
AdultsEducationBusinessCulture..."The hospitality program at Canadian College opened doors for my future in the industry. The diploma allowed me to study and gain practical experience, complementing my previous education in Brazil. The faculty and staff were always supportive."
Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now
AdultsPsychologyThis is a story about attention, memory, and headless goat hockey, which is a totally real sport played on horseback with a goat carcass standing in for a ball.
Baby Penguins Brave a Deadly Storm | Secrets of the Penguins | National Geographic
AdultsAnimalsNatureWildlifeIn this special look at the new series Secrets of the Penguins, wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory witnesses a group of young penguin chicks, one especially small, as they face an unforgiving storm and their first taste of independence.
The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceTechnologyYoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology.
Another Ancestor Paradox
AdultsEvolutionGeneticsHistoryThere is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of everyone alive today because of how genealogy and genetic lineages work – and it is much more recent than you think.