The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.” Good things can happen […]
We Need a GitHub for Academic Research
Down with the static, old-fashioned scholarly paper. Communicating the results of scientific studies remains rooted in printing presses and elegant typography. One striking exception to this pattern is the way […]
Alien Knowledge – When Machines Justify Knowledge
We can only know what we know because we are deeply in league with alien tools of our own devising. Our mental stuff is not enough. A 26 minute piece […]
How Delaware’s Blockchain Trial Could Change Wall Street
A Clear Description of the Blockchain and how it’s being integrated in our financial organizations. With a population of just under a million, the small state of Delaware is […]
With AI, Answers Are Cheap, But Questions Are The Future
We’re getting reliable, instant answers from machines thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence. But if knowledge is growing exponentially because of scientific tools, then we should be running out of […]