Tag: Warping
Belugas may communicate by warping a blob of forehead fat
The beluga whale wears its heart on its sleeve — or rather, its forehead.
Researchers have created a visual encyclopedia of the different expressions that belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in captivity seem to make with their highly mobile “melon,” a squishy deposit of fat on the forehead that helps direct sound waves for echolocation.
Using muscles and connective tissue, belugas can extend the melon forward until it juts over their lips like the bill of a cap; mush it
Ayad Akhtar: AI Ad Tech Is Warping Our Minds
This essay has been adapted from a lecture delivered at the Newark Public Library in honor of Philip Roth.
Something unnatural is afoot. Our affinities are increasingly no longer our own, but rather are selected for us for the purpose of automated economic gain. The automation of our cognition and the predictive power of technology to monetize our behavior, indeed our very thinking, is transforming not only our societies and discourse with one another, but