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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…
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Who Owns Your Cells and Tissue After a Procedure? What Moore, HeLa and the Consent Rules Say
Under US law you generally have no ownership claim to cells removed from your body, but your doctor must disclose personal financial…
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Wright’s Law vs Moore’s Law: Which Predicts Technology Better?
Cost falling with time and cost falling with cumulative production fit history almost equally well. This article explains why, where the two…
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What Does an IRB Do, and When Is Human-Subjects Review Legally Required?
An IRB approves, changes or rejects human-subjects studies. Federal funding and FDA rules make review mandatory in many cases. Here is what…
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Too leaky to replicate: an error threshold for memes in human memory
Are memes faithful enough to be replicators? An error-threshold model, fitted to 12,096 transmissions from open transmission-chain experiments, says human memory keeps…
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Missing Heritability: Why DNA Studies Still Fall Short of Twin Studies
Twin studies call height about 80 percent heritable, yet DNA studies long explained far less. Here is what sequencing has closed, what…
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Why Does Sex Exist? The Twofold Cost and the Case for Sex
Asexual females should outbreed sexual ones two to one, yet sex dominates complex life. This article weighs the evidence for the leading…
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Can AI Be Conscious? Scoring Chatbots, Agents and Robots
Fourteen indicator properties from the science of consciousness, turned into a scored checklist and applied to a chatbot, a language agent and…
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Grokking in Neural Networks: Why Generalization Arrives Late
Networks sometimes memorize their training data and only generalize thousands of steps later. This article weighs the competing explanations for grokking and…
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How to Make Data Brokers Delete Your Information: California DROP and Other Options
California’s DROP sends one deletion request to every registered data broker, and brokers had to start processing on August 1, 2026. Here…
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Do You Have a Right to Repair Your Devices? State Laws, Warranties and the FTC
Several states now require manufacturers to sell parts, tools and manuals for phones, laptops and more. What each law covers, how warranties…
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UAE Asteroid Mission Update: How the Ballistic Probe for 269 Justitia Is Meant to Work
The UAE asteroid mission finished its lander probe on Oct 1. How a 10 kg ballistic probe reaches 269 Justitia, the impact…
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