Academics at MIT have dreamed up something straight out of the pages of science fiction: a “wearable” book, which uses temperature controls and lighting to mimic the experiences of a story’s protagonist.
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I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.
In a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying,” a palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying. It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make time for things that we truly love.
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The Internet, in principle, could have conscious states.
If you had to list the hardest problems in science — the questions even some scientists say are insoluble — you would probably end up with two:
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