You’ll find it tucked away in the middle of the Sunday Globe on the page with the weather report, next to the Megabucks winning number and “This Day in History.”
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Hello — to what am I speaking?
Inspired by a wide-ranging appraisal of Artificial Intelligence research in the current issue of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, I sat down at my word processor to write this column.
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Gullible gulls and roaring deer
It is time to present the First Annual Gullible Gull Award for the most bizarre scientific research of the past year involving experimentation with animals — experiments that Shakespeare might call “wondrous strange.”
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Elusive memories
If I remember rightly, it was back about 1963 that I first got interested in the biochemistry of memory. My curiosity was sparked by some remarkable experiments with flatworms — tiny, extremely primitive animals with rudimentary brains and nervous systems.
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The moon rose like a stage set
Yesterday, just at sunset, the moon rose full. Tonight, if the sky is clear, a nearly-full moon will rise again — golden, majestic, and startlingly large.