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“Advantageous”

Advantageous is a low budget indie film by Jennifer Phang that explores a near-future world–a kind of pre-dystopia–where jobs have become heavily automated and opportunities for education are cutthroat and women forced out of the workplace…

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Solving The Polywater Equation in German and English

Solving The Polywater Equation in German and English

Some time ago, I was invited by the publisher of Nova to contribute to their upcoming German anthology, based on real science. In our initial correspondence, editor Marianne Labisch mentioned that they were “looking for short stories by scientists based on their research but ‘spun on’ to create a science fiction story;” she knew I […]

Driving the Dempster Highway—Fort McPherson, Inuvik, Tuk … ’Thalweg’

Driving the Dempster Highway—Fort McPherson, Inuvik, Tuk … ’Thalweg’

. In my upcoming eco-fiction novel Thalweg, Gwich’in limnologist Bobby-Jo makes her way back home to Fort McPherson, NWT, after the sudden flood of the Peel River has all but destroyed her Arctic hometown. She starts in Dawson City and takes the challenging gravel Dempster Highway north. The Dempster is renowned for its remote beauty […]

Cognitive Surrender of Humans to the Machine

Cognitive Surrender of Humans to the Machine

A recent MIT study reports that reliance on AI is causing mass ‘cognitive surrender.’ The study revealed that pervasive artificial intelligence usage is fundamentally eroding active learning and overriding intellectual agency. The report warns that students are falling into what they call “cognitive surrender;” gladly offloading their cognitive skills to AI. The researchers argue that […]

LLMs: When AI Behaves Like a Virus

LLMs: When AI Behaves Like a Virus

I recently came across an interesting approach to the use of Large Language Models by researchers from Santa Fe Institute, Harvard University, CSIC, and others. The preprint, published on the arXiv preprint repository Sept 3, 2026, has the intriguing title of “Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus” and is causing a stir among the AI […]

Interview with Author Simon Rose About “The Memory Bank”

Interview with Author Simon Rose About “The Memory Bank”

. My guest today is author Simon Rose, who has published twenty-one novels for children and young adults, eight guides for writers, more than a hundred nonfiction books, and many articles on a wide variety of topics. Today he’s here to tell us more about his two latest novels, The Memory Bank – All in […]

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