Mechanical Turk – the fake chess-playing machine that lacked intelligence but still fooled humans for decades
An 18th century machine called the Mechanical Turk wore a turban and a robe and beat humans in chess for ...
An 18th century machine called the Mechanical Turk wore a turban and a robe and beat humans in chess for ...
The "Smiley Kids armband with negative ions" was not so smiley after all.
It's real, it's dangerous, but some people want to make it seem like a joke.
Youtube will start showing "information boxes" -- brief fact-checking bits that debunk some of the most common and dangerous scientific ...
In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and the amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson made a stunning announcement, which turned out to ...
Using estimates of how many people are involved in some of the major alleged conspiracies, one scientist modeled how long ...