Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Despite the lingering obsession with IQ scores being the arbiter of your fate and intelligence, they’re probably pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.
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According to some of the latest research into cognition and neuroscience, our brains may not be the end-all-be-all of our intellectual prowess…
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Some researchers are wondering if our conscious minds may spread outside of our bodies and think a study of spiders in their webs could prove their hunch.
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A new study showing that your through patterns are unique enough to be seen on a brain scan is being misinterpreted as a test run of an IQ detector.
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When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?
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Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.
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Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?
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For nearly than half a century, the consensus on what makes a machine intelligent has eluded the computer science field, and it's not getting any easier with more time and new technology.
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A high IQ score might make you feel good, but it seems to have relatively few real world advantages.
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Ultimately, there's only so much we can do against death, but having a higher IQ may give you a very, very slight edge...