Cosmic LogAug 11, 2025
Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future
How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be business as usual? Or will it
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/08/11/climate-fiction-thriller-explores-floridas-flooded-future/
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Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future

How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be busin…

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Cosmic LogMay 19, 2025

How to hold the line against AI hype
Don't call ChatGPT a chatbot. Call it a conversation simulator. Don't think of DALL-E as a creator of artistic imagery. Instead, think of it as a synthetic media extruding machine. In fact, avoid thinking that what generative AI does is actually artificial intelligence.

That
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/19/how-to-hold-the-line-against-ai-hype/
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How to hold the line against AI hype

Don’t call ChatGPT a chatbot. Call it a conversation simulator. Don’t think of DALL-E as a creator of artistic imagery. Instead, think of it as a synthetic media extruding machine. In f…

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Cosmic LogFeb 14, 2025
How science weighs the pluses and minuses of space sex
You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but based on the scientific evidence so far, low-gravity intimacy isn’t likely to be as much of a high as it sounds. In fact, dwelling too deeply on the challenges of off-Earth sex and repr
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/02/14/how-science-weighs-the-pluses-and-minuses-of-space-sex/
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How science weighs the pluses and minuses of space sex

You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but based on the scientific evidence so far, low-gravity intimacy isn’t likely to be as much of a high as it sounds. In fact,…

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Cosmic LogJan 29, 2025

Science points out paths to interplanetary adventures
What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus' atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto's ice mountains? Or just watch the clouds roll by on Mars?

All those adv
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/01/29/science-points-out-paths-to-interplanetary-adventures/
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Science points out paths to interplanetary adventures

What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus’ atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto&#8217…

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Cosmic LogNov 5, 2024
Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-itll-get-harder-to-draw-the-line-between-ai-and-us/
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Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us

Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity’s greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity’s most dangerous rival. But maybe there’s a third alternative —…

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Cosmic LogSep 4, 2024
AI goes full circle from fiction to science and back again
Artificial intelligence has had an effect on nearly every facet of modern life --- ranging from diagnosing diseases, to applying for a job, to deciding which movie to watch. Now it's reaching back into the realm where our notions about A
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/09/04/ai-goes-full-circle-from-fiction-to-science-and-back-again/
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AI goes full circle from fiction to science and back again

Artificial intelligence has had an effect on nearly every facet of modern life — ranging from diagnosing diseases, to applying for a job, to deciding which movie to watch. Now it’s reac…

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Cosmic LogAug 8, 2024
‘The Expanse’ team explores what happens if aliens win
In nearly all alien-invasion tales, the puny humans somehow find a way to win --- for example, in classic novels like "The War of the Worlds," or in movies like "Independence Day" and "Battle: Los Angeles." But in a new novel by the authors of "The E
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/08/the-expanse-team-explores-what-happens-if-aliens-win/
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‘The Expanse’ team explores what happens if aliens win

In nearly all alien-invasion tales, the puny humans somehow find a way to win — for example, in classic novels like “The War of the Worlds,” or in movies like “Independence …

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Cosmic LogApr 22, 2024

How de-extinction could change our destiny
It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

"If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-de-extinction-could-change-our-destiny/
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How de-extinction could change our destiny

It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts. &#8…

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Cosmic LogDec 23, 2023
How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’
Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany — the achievement
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/23/the-boys-in-the-boat-rowing-tech/
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How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’

Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 O…

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Cosmic LogDec 23, 2023
How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’
Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany — the achievement
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/23/the-boys-in-the-boat-rowing-tech/
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How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’

Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 O…

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