The name for a family of commercial chemicals usually provides a fairly clear idea of the related compounds within it. An example is organophosphate pesticides. Another is brominated flame retardants.

How would you define the metaverse? Is it one metaverse? Is it multiple metaverses? Is the term metaverse the term we should use? Is the metaverse here, or is it being created? So many questions arise ...

Now may seem like an odd moment to be worrying that one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter. If ever there was a man of violence who didn’t pose this issue, it is Osama Bin Laden.

Two Ontario court cases involving people deemed brain dead are raising questions about whether what constitutes death should be clearly spelled out under Canadian laws. The issue is at the crux of ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross wears many hats: he runs a company called Gemedy in Boston focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), he has a number of academic appointments at Harvard and MIT, and he ...

One question stood out at an otherwise deadly dull Olympics press conference Saturday morning: Does anyone think the London Games have found their "defining" moment yet? Good question, one that drew ...

Reis is a professor of gender and bioethics at the Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York and the author of [tempo-ecommerce src="https://www.amazon.com ...