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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orangeAI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange

AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Take

Every generation thinks they are witnessing machines that will endanger how we think, but how valid are these concerns when applied to AI?

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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or LaterScientists are researching vaccines in clinical laboratories that focus on diagnosing the Nipah virus, with an emphasis on medical research, disease detection, and healthcare preparedness.

Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or Later

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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Roleplaying The End Of The World: Can "Playing Pandemic" Help Prevent The Apocalypse? Real Simulation Exercises Suggest Yes, It Cana hand moves a chess piece that is wearing a tiny face mask - part of IFLScience's viral summer series

Roleplaying The End Of The World: Can "Playing Pandemic" Help Prevent The Apocalypse? Real Simulation Exercises Suggest Yes, It Can

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?

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Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"An X-ray of a skull affected by Gorham's disease. Bone is missing at the back of the cranium.

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Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"An X-ray of a skull affected by Gorham's disease. Bone is missing at the back of the cranium.
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Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"

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Since 1986, Over 600 Nuns Have Taken Part In A Huge Study Of Brain Aging. This Is What They’ve Taught UsA photo showing a nun praying. She is framed on profile, facing the right. She is set against a light background with a slight glow of light around her head. An anatomical drawing of a brain has been superimposed on her head.

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Since 1986, Over 600 Nuns Have Taken Part In A Huge Study Of Brain Aging. This Is What They’ve Taught UsA photo showing a nun praying. She is framed on profile, facing the right. She is set against a light background with a slight glow of light around her head. An anatomical drawing of a brain has been superimposed on her head.
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Since 1986, Over 600 Nuns Have Taken Part In A Huge Study Of Brain Aging. This Is What They’ve Taught Us

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From Heatwaves To Extreme Storms, The World's Blood Stocks Are Under Threat From Climate ChangeQUEENS, NY - NOVEMBER 11: Damaged houses without power at night in the Rockaway due to impact from Hurricane Sandy in Queens, New York, U.S., on November 11, 2012.

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From Heatwaves To Extreme Storms, The World's Blood Stocks Are Under Threat From Climate ChangeQUEENS, NY - NOVEMBER 11: Damaged houses without power at night in the Rockaway due to impact from Hurricane Sandy in Queens, New York, U.S., on November 11, 2012.
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From Heatwaves To Extreme Storms, The World's Blood Stocks Are Under Threat From Climate Change

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Can Medical Treatment – Or Other Things – Change Your Eye Color? Yes, Here's Howcollage of different coloured eyes in a 3 by 3 grid

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Can Medical Treatment – Or Other Things – Change Your Eye Color? Yes, Here's Howcollage of different coloured eyes in a 3 by 3 grid
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Can Medical Treatment – Or Other Things – Change Your Eye Color? Yes, Here's How

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Cheaters Never Prosper? Why The Prisoner's Dilemma Is Not As Simple As You Think2D illustration of two figures behind bars in neighboring cells, viewed from outside

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Cheaters Never Prosper? Why The Prisoner's Dilemma Is Not As Simple As You Think2D illustration of two figures behind bars in neighboring cells, viewed from outside
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Cheaters Never Prosper? Why The Prisoner's Dilemma Is Not As Simple As You Think

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The Tanganyika Laughing Epidemic Of 1962, A Case Of "Mass Hysteria" At The End Of Colonial PsychiatryThe image shows an old map of Lake Victoria in what was Tanganyika. There is a red drawing pin positioned over "Bukoba". To the right of the lake is an image of a faded paper folder showing the battered edges of the documents it contains. Written on the file in old type face is "1982. Laughing Epidemic. Tanginika. East Africa", each on a separate line.

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The Tanganyika Laughing Epidemic Of 1962, A Case Of "Mass Hysteria" At The End Of Colonial PsychiatryThe image shows an old map of Lake Victoria in what was Tanganyika. There is a red drawing pin positioned over "Bukoba". To the right of the lake is an image of a faded paper folder showing the battered edges of the documents it contains. Written on the file in old type face is "1982. Laughing Epidemic. Tanginika. East Africa", each on a separate line.
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The Tanganyika Laughing Epidemic Of 1962, A Case Of "Mass Hysteria" At The End Of Colonial Psychiatry

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Why Did Psychiatrists Shoot A Zoo Elephant With LSD In 1962? The Strange Case Of Tusko Gets Even Stranger The Closer You LookThe image shows an Asian elephant standing with its trunk held in the air. The animal has been placed on a psychedelic background that blends the colour spectrum in a way that makes the pattern it forms look like its moving.

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Why Did Psychiatrists Shoot A Zoo Elephant With LSD In 1962? The Strange Case Of Tusko Gets Even Stranger The Closer You LookThe image shows an Asian elephant standing with its trunk held in the air. The animal has been placed on a psychedelic background that blends the colour spectrum in a way that makes the pattern it forms look like its moving.
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Why Did Psychiatrists Shoot A Zoo Elephant With LSD In 1962? The Strange Case Of Tusko Gets Even Stranger The Closer You Look

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For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" DisappearedShattered glass fragments captured in mid-air against a black background.

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For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" DisappearedShattered glass fragments captured in mid-air against a black background.
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For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" Disappeared

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“They Basically Refused Any Kind Of Public Debate On This": Why The "Quiet Christian Revival" Narrative Fell ApartA photo showing two empty church pews in a catholic church. In the background, a column of pews with some people sat among them is visible, though blurred. The church is richly decorated with stain glass windows in the background.

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“They Basically Refused Any Kind Of Public Debate On This": Why The "Quiet Christian Revival" Narrative Fell ApartA photo showing two empty church pews in a catholic church. In the background, a column of pews with some people sat among them is visible, though blurred. The church is richly decorated with stain glass windows in the background.
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“They Basically Refused Any Kind Of Public Debate On This": Why The "Quiet Christian Revival" Narrative Fell Apart

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“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chillsfigure sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose wearing headphones, surrounded by concentric circles of wavy lines and musical notes, with colours going from orange in the center to yellow at the edges.

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“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chillsfigure sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose wearing headphones, surrounded by concentric circles of wavy lines and musical notes, with colours going from orange in the center to yellow at the edges.
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“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chills

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