To arrive in front of a class and feel powerless in the face of students with a bleak future all mapped out for them, is a frustration that many teachers can feel. But is the future really that mapped ...

First, what counts as ‘technological progress’ in any setting can unfold in many possible directions. Second, there is no single direction that equally suits all involved. A key reason for neglecting ...

On the ground at Dynatrace Perform 2026, you couldn’t accuse the vendor of being dull with the presentation. The morning keynote opened with CEO Rick McConnell attempting to hand over to an ...

Author Brent Wiseman has released a new book titled "Causal Happenstance" to explain the philosophy of determinism. The book argues that human actions are caused by external factors, challenging the ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

How Gear Determinism Became the Defining Cultural Marker in Skiing The basal nature of how we pine for gear may be nothing new, but the way in which we are marketed to certainly is, creating a brave ...

Artificial Intelligence is very much in the news these days, so I decided to do a critical analysis of one of works discussing AI on the bestseller lists, The Coming Wave, by one of the key figures ...

Note, not present with ["enhanced-determinism"] so more potentially an interesting counter example to docs that say is locally deterministic. Enhanced-determinism fixed this for my use case. I noticed ...

I DO not think there are many non-physicists who will attempt to gainsay the fact that, under physical constraint, the direction of motion may be determined without affecting the quantity of the ...

Two weekends ago, I rappelled off the end of my rope. I fell five feet, enough to badly break (“smash”) three bones in my ankle. Emergency surgery was performed at Saint Mary’s Regional Hospital in ...