“Could you be living inside a simulation created by a more advanced intelligence? Where does your unerring belief that you are not come from? The short answer is you don’t. Consider this: with every passing moment, we get closer to creating intelligent machines, maybe even conscious ones. If we can do this, couldn’t someone – …
In the US – where companies routinely use computer algorithms to whittle down job applicants – 72% of CVs are never seen by human eyes. (The Guardian) There is little more depressing and destructive of self-confidence than job hunting with no contacts and no one to help. When I was young I found myself in …
Apparently, Big Pharma stopped researching memory loss because they tried but lost a load of money doing so. Everyone knows alzheimers is up there as a major health issue, but the big companies have been waiting for one, brilliant breakthrough before piling in there. Have two such breakthroughs actually occurred, and will they prove effective? …
Scientists in the US have discovered a painkiller that seems to work just as well as morphine – but without its potentially lethal side effects. The chemical compound PZM21, which has so far only been tested on mice, appears to target the same pain-reducing brain receptors as opium-derived painkillers such as morphine, but is more …
Past estimates of the elephant population in Africa ranged from around 400,000 to over 630,000, and there was disagreement about the numbers. The new Great Elephant Census, funded by Paul Allen of Microsoft, estimates that there are just 352,271 elephants in 93 percent of the animals’ range. Much of the decline in the elephant population …
