Exploring the overlap between code and reason

At some point in the last two decades, numbers stopped being tools and became truths. What began as a method to measure progress turned into a new metaphysics, a faith in data so absolute that it now defines how people…

For nearly three decades, popular culture has treated Friends and Sex and the City as sacred relics of television history. They are streamed, quoted, revived, and endlessly referenced as if their perfection were self-evident. To question them feels almost heretical…

Few ideas have captured the human imagination as powerfully as colonizing Mars. Red deserts, frozen peaks, and alien horizons have become symbols of a future where humanity transcends its home world. From pulp fiction to billion-dollar space programs, Mars has…

For as long as humans have lived in organized societies, secrecy has been power. Empires rose and fell on hidden knowledge, generals depended on codes to outmaneuver their enemies, and merchants guarded trade routes as jealously as kings guarded thrones.

For much of the twentieth century, the world’s great conflicts were framed in the language of oil. Nations rose and fell on access to petroleum, wars were launched over pipelines and reserves, and entire economies were structured around black gold.

Science has long flirted with the idea of remaking humanity, yet only in the past decade has that notion crossed from speculative fiction into tangible laboratories. The latest breakthrough, reported by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, shows the…