Color me a hardened cynic of the hyped-up potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to shape a wiser, better-informed future for humanity. But, like other inquisitive souls, I put ChatGPT to the test to see how AI ‘sees’ itself in this discussion.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s book, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future coauthored with Michael Bhaskar at once presents two opposite societal visions — utopian or dystopian — which perhaps only artificial intelligence itself will determine.

I recently read an interesting article in the Carolina Journal: “The work habits of Gen Z: A wake-up call for employers and educators.” The author, a current college professor, makes some good observations about what he describes as a deplorable situation.

There is no other way either science or mathematics can be right, valid, and useful comprehensively if we do not change our current dogma in physics, engineering, and mathematics that merrily claims that the sine function is a wave, and light and radiation of any kind is some electromagnetic wave in any or all media.

In a nutshell -Americans believe only 41% of online content is accurate and created by humans, with three-quarters reporting their trust in the internet is at an all-time low.

Modern societies take a steady flow of electricity for granted to power our smartphones, laptops, appliances, nighttime lighting, home air conditioning, credit card and ATM transactions, and countless other dependencies … until its interruption shuts everything down.

Ed Miliband is quietly plotting a massive wind farm subsidy surge that could send household energy bills soaring in a bid to salvage his Net Zero ambitions. The Telegraph’s Jonathan Leake has the story.

Britain’s rush to Net Zero could leave it vulnerable to months-long blackouts, as reliance on intermittent renewables strains the grid, escalating costs and jeopardising energy security

Friend of Principia Scientific, Truther and award-winning South African cartoonist, Jeremy Nell has joined forces with fast-growing online independent news hub, UKColumn for a daily podcast. Nell announced the new venture on his Jerm Warfare blog:

In most of Europe and the Americas, cousin marriage is extremely rare — only a few percent of people are married to their first or second cousins. But in other societies — mostly in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia — it’s much more common

Acting to please a constituency that prefers scarcity over abundance, Joe Biden ordered up a list of federal rules that restricted consumer choice

The New York Times warns us that “The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith”

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by living organisms

The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 in response to growing public concern for the environment. Many of these concerns were entirely justified

Written texts of all ages have the same drift when it comes to the midriff – they consistently describe women’s thin waists as attractive