Science and Debates

Six debates at the frontier of science “Textbooks usually make the triumph of a scientific theory seem inevitable and uncontestable. But at the ... (2017)

IBM’s Project Debater research project is able to make real-time arguments about complicated debates like subsidizing space exploration. (2018)

And so I signed on to Change My View, a section of Reddit where people post opinions and ask to have them changed. “What’s astounding about Kal ... (2018)

Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? (2020)

Our eyes are special detectors. They allow us to register information not only from across the room but from across the universe. Without vision, t... (2020)