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A UK law says some invertebrates are sentient, but how do they know? WELCOME TO HOWTOWN! Our small but mighty team of two (Joss Fong and Adam Cole) digs into the evidence behind commonly held facts and claims in the … Continue reading
Why Did These Test Tubes Appear In Your Street?
[…] You may have noticed these test tubes on lamp posts all over the UK recently. What do they do? And where did they come from? They’re part of a clean air scheme and they’re used to collect samples of … Continue reading
How Blade Runner Tests for Empathy: Voight-Kampff Explained | Scifi Science
What makes someone real? And if we met a machine that could feel, how would we even know? ____________ Join on Patreon for members only videos: patreon.com/user?u=83887531 ____________ In Blade Runner, the Voight-Kampff test measures empathy, not intelligence, not memory. … Continue reading
Astonishing discovery by computer scientist: how to squeeze space into time
This year, computer scientist Ryan Williams showed an astounding connection between space and time. He thought it was too strange to be true. But, it is. It’s about space, time, fundamental constraints, a 50-year-old mystery, and magical pebbles that resolved … Continue reading
We Turned the Mediterranean Into One Big Particle Physics Experiment
[…] In order to study the smallest particles in the known universe, physicists have to build incredibly huge detectors. One of them, currently under construction, stretches across the Mediterranean from France to Greece. And despite being under construction, it’s still … Continue reading
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