Quoted: IBM has announced a software simulation of a mammalian cerebral cortex that's significantly more complex than the cortex of a cat. And, just like the actual brain that it simulates, they still have to figure out how it works.

Quoted: By her own words, Sarah Palin is dumb. Here's the excerpt of pages 255-257 of "Going Rogue: An American Life":

Quoted: In 2002, two psychologists found a business opportunity selling interrogation and training services to the C.I.A.

Quoted: Over at Not Exactly Rocket Science, Ed Yong has a great summary of a new paper trying to figure out why information (at least in ...

Quoted: Sometimes, a film defies conventional narrative and artistic standards so utterly that it seems unfair to judge it by them. G.I. Joe is such a case, a movie that has, through its own inverse accomplishment, earned the right to speak for itself. Consider this a tone poem in 40 scraps of dialogue:

Quoted: Sam Lachterman, who with his sister were once 'St. Louis Characters,' passes.

Quoted: Clarke does a smashing job with the heavy fact-lifting, but in the interests of summing up a cascade of wrongness in a single fact, consider this: Palin wrote a 700-word takedown of cap-and-trade that did not include the words pollution, emissions, carbon, or global warming.

Let's think about this for a second.

Quoted: This site is devoted to the number spiral, a type of graph that reveals the distribution of primes and other properties of integers.