By: Matthew Battles

Genki Sudo’s pop group makes the salaryman into an uncanny spectacle.

By: Peggy Nelson

Love affairs in the animal world.

By: Andrea Pitzer

An interview with the master riddler of cosmic symmetry.

By: Matthew Battles

In one version of an oft-repeated thought experiment, Douglas Hofstadter famously wondered if Albert Einstein’s brain (well, anyone’s brain, really) could be reformatted as a book, with each neuron represented by a page printed with […]

By: Matthew Battles

The concept of the Uncanny Valley was proposed by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, author of Buddha in the Machine (in which Mori asserts that a robot can achieve enlightenment). Mori noted the revulsion many observers […]