Supporters of the theory say that China’s successes are not being recognised because of a racialised, hierarchical view of the world.

As a tech expert, I have long been fascinated by how narratives shape behaviour, especially when controversy collides with public policy.

Now, with Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, Pentland is expanding some of these themes, to talk about what really drives human responses in a social context. Are we “rational agents, ...

A social media trend shouldn’t be tested right now amid the federal government shutdown. TSA wait times across the country are expected to be longer than usual. Indiana University fires student ...

Politics should be a part of a society's culture, a derivative of culture, downstream from art and philosophy, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

A nine-letter social media post was all it took for the Department of Homeland Security to spark a torrent of backlash online this week, drawing the ire of politicians and prompting comparisons to ...

Words by Ambar Ramirez It started out like any other Wednesday. I woke up, went for a run, took a shower, made my coffee, and headed to work — half-awake, half on autopilot. But it didn’t stay an ...

Research finds that friendship is less of an exchange of giving and receiving, and more of a support system for unpredictable times.

Gaza ceasefire creates unexpected quiet among Free Palestine supporters as moral identity conflicts with acknowledging incremental progress in activism.

I have an acquaintance. She’s a lot younger than me. I like her, but she’s one of those people who thinks she’s a rebel by doing things which are annoyingly conventional for women her age. I try not ...

Reddit's CEO and Redditors alike seem to agree that the internet is now dominated by bots and AI-generated content, to disastrous effects.

New research suggests that education can raise IQ by up to 15 points—even among identical twins—challenging determinism and revealing intelligence to be more malleable than we once believed.