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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive / Getty. The problem with horses—one of the problems with horses, I say as a former horse girl—is that they are as stubborn as mules.

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...

Are sick days a benefit I’m free to use however I want? By Kwame Anthony Appiah I am leaving my job in a couple of months. I have about one month of sick days stored up, which I would like to count as ...

It’s no secret that I have been struggling to find employment. I’ve been trying to get a job for the past five years. Literally. Just any W-2 list would be great, ideally in writing and not sales. It ...

No, I don't think any one generative AI tool from the major players is more ethical than any other. Here’s why. For me, the ethics of generative AI use can be broken down to issues with how the models ...