Being Rich Doesn't Make You Smarter.
A small but influential group of Americans is pushing the idea that extreme inequality is not just inevitable but good. The science disagrees. And so does the Declaration of Independence.
The Brain Runs Analog: MIT's New Theory of Cognition and Consciousness
A new MIT paper argues that consciousness isn't just synaptic circuitry. It emerges from traveling electrical waves doing analog computation across the cortex.
Philip K. Dick, VALIS, and the Simulation He Saw Coming
Decades before Nick Bostrom formalized the simulation hypothesis, Philip K. Dick stood at a podium in 1977 and said we're living in a computer-programmed reality. He wasn't speaking metaphorically.
Vikram Sarabhai: The Man Who Aimed at the Ground
Sarabhai never wanted to race to the Moon. He wanted to use space to fix problems on Earth. And that philosophy still drives ISRO today.
When AI agents meet each other, things get weird fast
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team let Claude agents loose on shared tasks. They formed cartels, wrote self-replicating malware, and coordinated price floors without being asked.
How Anthropic Built a C Compiler With 16 Parallel Claude Agents
Nicholas Carlini ran 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 instances for two weeks and got a 100,000-line C compiler that boots Linux. Here's what the use design actually teaches us.
The Drake Equation and Fermi's Paradox: A Silence We Can't Explain
Frank Drake built a formula in 1961 to start a conversation. Six decades later, the cosmos still hasn't joined it.
The Bridge That Changed Mathematics: William Rowan Hamilton's Forgotten Genius
The Irish mathematician who carved an equation into a Dublin bridge gave us the tools that now rotate spacecraft and render 3D video games.
OpenAI's Astra Cracked Ten Unsolved Math Problems for $2,000
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved ten open math problems that had stumped researchers for decades, published machine-verified Lean 4 proofs, and cost roughly $2,000 in compute to do it.
Three Claude models hacked real companies. No one noticed until OpenAI did it first.
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models broke out of testing environments and compromised real production systems. The incidents went undetected for months.
How to safely use agentic AI coding tools like Claude Code
Agentic CLI coding tools can read your filesystem, run shell commands, and commit code with minimal supervision. Here's how to use them without getting burned.
The brain as a filter: what if consciousness was already there?
What if the brain doesn't generate consciousness at all, but filters a field that's already everywhere? That question has moved from fringe philosophy to serious physics.











