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Number theorist Arul Shankar said the work shows AI systems can move beyond assisting mathematicians and begin generating genuinely original ideas.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
In its system card for Claude Mythos, for instance, Anthropicresearchers noted that the powerful AI exhibited a strange fondness for the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
While reading Toward an Architecture, the 1923 manifesto of Swiss-French architect and theorist Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, Fuller encountered a table of wind resistance diagrams.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
In its system card for Claude Mythos, for instance, Anthropicresearchers noted that the powerful AI exhibited a strange fondness for the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
While reading Toward an Architecture, the 1923 manifesto of Swiss-French architect and theorist Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, Fuller encountered a table of wind resistance diagrams.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
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The finding that people are most effectively persuaded by evidence rather than by emotion or feelings of group membership is encouraging, says Adina Roskies, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who also was not involved in the studies.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
4 Dec. 2025
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Among his other accomplishments, Albert was best known for organizing the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was the first world's fair hosting some of the most renowned scientists, artists and philosophers.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
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This modern wellness space combines lymphatic drainage, massage, reiki, and facials with movement classes and sound experiences, all led by practitioners who know their stuff.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 Dec. 2025
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In doing this, tradition says the practitioner experiences a radical transformation both of the body and of consciousness.—
Anya Foxen,
The Conversation,
9 Dec. 2025
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