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The Problem with Scientific Credit
Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.
The Woman Who Reinvented the Moon
A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story.
What’s Wrong with Bananas
How industrial agriculture stole sex from our most important fresh fruit crop.
We Need an FDA For Algorithms
UK mathematician Hannah Fry on the promise and danger of an AI world.
The Robot Economy Will Run on Blockchain
What finance will look like when it is controlled by machines.
Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew
When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.