Stories by laurex

Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls (2016)

Competitiveness Leads Us to Sabotage Others' Personal Goals at Expense of Ours

Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money

BlackBerry Is Becoming a Cyber Security Company

Digital Assistants and 'Moral AI' on Whether to Report Illegal/Immoral Activity

Your Boring, Everyday Life Belongs on Social Media

Fruit Fly Study Questions the Assumption That Brains Need Sleep

A New Way of Uncovering the Brain's Reward System

Amtrak Plan to Expand Ridership Could Sidetrack Storied Trains

How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games

Trough of No Value (2009)

A California Law to Protect Immigrant Home Cooks May Help Tech Giants Instead

Unexpected Place for Learning and Memory in the Brain

Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die

L.A. Has Great Weather, yet More Homeless Die of the Cold Than in NYC

Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage

Google translate is a manifestation of Wittgenstein's theory of language

The reason behind the rise of helicopter parenting

Adolescents have a fundamental need to contribute

Moving from Speculative to Realistic Conversations on Artificial Intelligence