A friend recently confided to me that he and his dad had used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence text chatbot, to write an obituary for his uncle. His dad...
Science and technology
Given its name, it seems only natural that cryptocurrency and the suite of other blockchain-based technologies associated with it would have an enduringly...
“This wasn’t the book I wanted to write,” says Dominican Sister Laurie Brink about her recent book, The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (Liturgical Press)...
Orson Scott Card has written that the world of science fiction is like the stable in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: much larger on the inside than the outside...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The idea of life–especially intelligent life–on other planets has long captured the contemporary imagination. Despite the...
Jessica Pegis is an author based in Toronto. In her debut novel The God Painter (Stone Table Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2021), Toronto writer Jessica...
Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions By Sabine Hossenfelder (Viking, 2022) Finding a good popularizer for cutting-edge physics...
Certain scientific concepts can capture the public’s imagination and take on a life of their own. This is commonplace in science fiction where time travel, the...
Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking...
The events of recent history that have coincided with the early years of my kids’ lives have one consistent and persistent quality: their capacity to unnerve...
