Did you ever wonder why 19th century pirates are often represented wearing eye patches? I never did, because I assumed that it was for the obvious reason: they had lost an eye. Pirates, like many ...

In recent years evolutionary psychologists have developed and defended the Massive Modularity Hypothesis, which maintains that our cognitive architecture--including the part that subserves 'central ...

Slowly, machine-learning systems are beginning to generate ideas, not just test them. By Benedict Carey Machine-learning algorithms seem to have insinuated their way into every human activity short of ...