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The brain, prompt and question of intelligence: What is intelligence and are humans still as intelligent in the rise of artificial intelligence?

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Imagine being the smartest, clever or intellectually great species in the world. Then you have AI. Who is actually the most intelligent? For a good amount of time, humans, have been, seen as what would be called the “top of the food chain” when it comes to being intellectually superior. However, in a great twist of events, throughout history, humanity has repeatedly discovered that the universe is less centered on humans, than we once believed. Let us take it back a bit, all the way, to the sixteenth century, where Nicolaus Copernicus displaced Earth from the centre of the cosmos, beginning a scientific revolution that transformed our understanding of the universe. Three centuries later, Charles Darwin demonstrated that humans are not separate from nature but one branch on the evolutionary tree, sharing common ancestry with every living organism. More recently, the study of animal behaviour, which, has steadily dismantled the notion that many cognitive traits, such as, tool use, cu...
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Shopping from farm to factory: What does actual healthy eating look like in the modern world?

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  Walk through a supermarket today and you'll find yourself surrounded by choices. From fresh vegetables sitting beside frozen alternatives, whole grains compete for attention with ready-to-eat cereals, all the way to locally grown produce shares shelf space with foods that have travelled thousands of kilometers and spent months in storage. Also in the mix, is the added influence of fitness trends, nutrition advice on social media and the constant debate over "clean eating," and it becomes easy to wonder what healthy eating actually means. One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding food is that it falls neatly into two categories, which include, "natural" and "processed." In reality, food exists on a spectrum. Many of the foods we consider healthy have undergone some form of processing, while not every food labelled as natural is automatically nutritious. Biology teaches us that the relationship between food and health is much more complex than ...
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