18Oct 2026 by Post

Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

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In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Source
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13Oct 2026 by Post

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

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Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Source
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