Mary Martin

Decades later, scientists are starting to unravel how our wet, spongy, slippery organs talk to the brain and how the brain talks back. That two-way communication, known as interoception, encompasses a complex, bodywide system of nerves and hormones. Much recent exploration has focused on the vagus nerve: a massive, meandering network of more than... See more

sensationalist headlines conjuring fears of a techno-dystopian near-future overshadow more material issues over AI ethics that already exist – including how they reflect human biases, and the many ways in which they’re capable of manipulating users.

‘When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.’

greater inquisitiveness motivated people to slow down, be pa­tient and invest in experiencing the winding path to resolution.

The discovery suggested to Robert that electrostatics can enable a plant-pollinator mutualism, a well-known example of coevolution. This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established. The potential... See more

We argue that a denatured mindfulness divorced from

its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and

institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.

A new study shows that the large language models (LLMs) deliberately change their behavior when being probed—responding to questions designed to gauge personality traits with answers meant to appear as likeable or socially desirable as possible.

What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.