AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models can interpret medical images as well or better than human experts can — and, beyond that, even pick up things that human eyes can’t see. Learn all the ways AI is poised to make … Read moreCan AI catch what doctors miss? | Eric Topol
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes. Carl Sagan, who would have been 88 today, on science as an instrument of democracy. source
Each source institution also has its own dedicated page on the site, linked to from the table, which communicates all the aforementioned information relating to rights. In addition, there are, if relevant, links provided to the digital collections area of the source’s own website, and to their pages on aggregators such as Internet Archive or … Read moreThe Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul
Killing Joke “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app. HOUR 1Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat … Read morePlaylist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)
Before 2007, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Since then, humans have become more geographically concentrated, and many cities have grown in size as people have flocked to them. But some animal species have long lived in close quarters this way and for the same kinds of reasons that people do, such … Read more10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals
The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women’s exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector’s non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women … Read moreUnequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production
Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more colorful, elaborate, and freehand, and far more apt to dominate the script it sought to embellish. The genre’s golden age was the period between 1790 and 1830 — a time when the American religious context … Read moreFraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
(Secretly Canadian) If there’s one constant in Cherry Glazerr’s vigorous alt-rock through the years, it’s Clementine Creevy never sounding like she needs to apologize. To describe it in simpler terms: her musical project oozes raw power. But something’s changed in Creevy’s fifth album. While there are raucous barnburners like Touched You With My Chaos and … Read moreMusic Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr
In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that would allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history. Frederika Tevebring explores this grandiose undertaking and its effect on the archivist, as images from the collection began to blur with her … Read moreImages from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive
As children, many of us sat around the dinner table or a crackling campfire, listening to our parents or friends tell us the creepiest stories. We’d surreptitiously glance over our shoulders, ready to run at the slightest creak of a twig or flutter of a curtain. The characters in these stories haunted us. They brought … Read more10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night