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Matthew Hutson

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Covers:  science, technology, psychology, AI
Freelance science writer for The New Yorker, Science, Nature, etc. Fire dancer. Into cognition—animal and mineral (aka psych & AI).

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Author of "The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane" (Penguin/Hudson Street 2012). B.S. in cognitive neuroscience from Brown, M.S. in science writing from MIT. Written for Newsweek, Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc. Former News Editor of Psychology Today. Mostly Harmless.

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The Charisma Effect

The Charisma Effect

How to bend people to your will

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The Power of Rituals

The Power of Rituals

Wade Boggs, the Hall of Fame third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, was famous for his pregame rituals. Before…

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A Discredited Writer Seeking Rehabilitation in a New Book

A Discredited Writer Seeking Rehabilitation in a New Book

Many people, especially writers, will read this review with bloodlust. In his new book, “A Book About Love,” …

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This Is Your Mind on Brains

This Is Your Mind on Brains

Why we’re so mesmerized by MRIs of lit-up brains, even though most of us have no clue what we’re looking at.

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Thanks to electric propulsion, cube satellites are about to take over the skies

Thanks to electric propulsion, cube satellites are about to take over the skies

Nanosats-satellites weighing a few pounds or less-are poised to colonize space. Already, hundreds of these cu…

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Quenching Consumers' Thirst for 'Authentic' Brands

Quenching Consumers' Thirst for 'Authentic' Brands

Authenticity is a fuzzy concept, but Julie Napoli, a marketing professor at Curtin University, and colleagues…

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These smart bricks know what object they make up

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By Sarah Lewin Verified, Matthew Hutson
| Scientific American Verified
Collectively intelligent bricks figure out if they're in a boat, chair or guitar Cells do not have brains. Yet somehow, as an organism grows, cells know where to go and what to be without top-down direction. And acting together, cells are collectively intelligent , ultimately building complex final forms—whether that be a flower, a whale, or even you.
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Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?

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By Matthew Hutson
| Nature Verified
Zhivar Sourati often gets déjà vu while perusing recent research in his field of computer science. “I read papers and I’m like, ‘I’ve seen this paper before,’” he says. Everything’s looking kind of the same, shorn of individual quirks, says Sourati, who is a PhD student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Sourati suspects artificial intelligence is to blame.
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Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?

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By Matthew Hutson
| Flipboard
Health 2 hours ago An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot TNW - Ana-Maria Stanciuc • 2h An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from the same trace.
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