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The sixteenth episode of Natasha Kiseleva's show "Scars and Sparkles" features science columnist Ilya Kolmanovsky.

This was the first Zoom episode of the show, but the conversation was very lively. We discussed anxiety, psychotherapy, stress, and why the brain so often chooses inaction in dangerous moments.

We discussed how the war changed the scientific community, how the regime exploits science, why propaganda needs "combat mosquitoes" and other pseudoscientific nonsense, why infomercialists are so fond of "quantum leaps," and how scientific authority is turned into a tool of manipulation.

And, of course, a significant portion of the conversation turned to AI: ChatGPT, memory, reading, cognitive laziness, new drugs, and a future that has long ceased to be a theory. And, at the same time, to the main scientific question of the issue: do men have internal organs?

00:00:00 — Ilya Kolmanovsky in "Scars and Spangles"
00:01:51 — What it means to be a "nomadic" science columnist
00:05:56 — Why the second emigration was harder than the first
00:08:41 — What the war did to scientists
00:10:54 — How the regime uses science and why it needs "combat mosquitoes"
00:15:47 — Why the brain chooses inaction
00:19:08 — Stress — an enemy or a tool after all
00:24:54 — Who is the main worryer here
00:27:45 — Why psychotherapy actually works
00:32:17 — Where did "quantum leaps" and other pseudoscientific nonsense come from
00:37:12 — Does Russian education teach science or cynicism?
00:40:21 — Is ChatGPT Already Changing Our Lives?
00:44:49 — Will Reels Beat Reading, or Can the Brain Still Be Trained?
00:48:46 — Is AI Making Us Lazier or Simply Freeing Up Time?
00:52:19 — New Drugs, Materials, and Technologies: What AI Is Already Changing in Science?
00:54:13 — Will AI Save Us or Kill Us Faster?
00:59:05 — Why Does the Brain So Naturally Fuse with Artificial Intelligence?

Many thanks to stylist Katerina for her impeccable style: Instagram: katharina_m..

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