HumansAncient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more Regulars
TechnologyWhy I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory 鈥 and that's a good thing, says Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis Comment