When we cultivate a language of dignity, we create the possibility of successful dialogue, even in extreme circumstances.

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is the first line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, and it may hold a kernel of truth that goes beyond family ...

Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I outlined how the growing centralization of AI infrastructure — especially large language models (LLMs) — is putting extraordinary power into the hands of a few ...

Abstract: Hopfield neural networks (HNNs) are one of the most well-known and widely used kinds of neural networks in optimization. In this article, the author focuses on building a deeper ...

Following the detection of gravitational waves nearly 10 years ago, physics instructors have worked to explain them in the undergraduate curriculum. Emerging methods for detecting them, however, are ...

Free falling: Einstein's equivalence principle holds that the motion of freely-falling bodies (whether apples, oranges, or anything else) is independent of their composition. The Cold Atom Laboratory ...

Gravity accelerates objects equally, despite differences in their mass or composition. This core principle of modern physics was known by the 16th century thanks to observations by Galileo Galilei, ...