How is hope to be found amid the ethical and political dilemmas of modern life? Writer and philosopher Mary Zournazi brought her questions to some ...
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Continue Reading →For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence’ have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In ...
Continue Reading →From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone “who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here” ...
Continue Reading →What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome – three billion pairs of code whose functions are ...
Continue Reading →In this thought-provoking book, Denis Noble formulates the theory of biological relativity, emphasising that living organisms operate at multiple levels of complexity and must therefore ...
Continue Reading →Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the “pure” mathematician. Mathematical methods – especially the notion of proof – that have their ...
Continue Reading →Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey ...
Continue Reading →Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, ...
Continue Reading →Zwischen 1919 und 1933 fanden nicht nur Polit-Hasardeure und barfüssige Propheten ungeahnte Massenresonanz – auch ein eher randständiger Begriff erlebte eine einzigartige Karriere: der Kairos. ...
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