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Vertigo AI

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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past

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Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech

The hairy Nobel

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How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime

Contrapuntal consciousness

Essays and videos exploring physics, evolution, cosmology and other frontiers in science

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology. 