Distillations Blog
The Distillations Blog is the place for regular updates from the intersections of science, culture, and history.
A Close Encounter of the Third Kind
October 03, 2016
Sometimes archivists, as Andrew Mangravite found, get more than they bargain for.
Where Is Everybody?
September 19, 2016
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for decades, but so far no one has found anything. As the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, where is everybody?
Beauty Marks
September 05, 2016
Who’s responsible for regulating beauty products that lead to less-than-beautiful results?
How to Tie with AI
August 22, 2016
Artificially intelligent programs are playing board games better than humans ever could. Is it possible to design a board game that can stump even the smartest computer?
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