Can artificial intelligence make academic research more accessible to non-specialist audiences—or even to busy researchers on the go? Gemini’s new ‘Audio Overview’ feature provides a novel way to experience scientific papers: through short, conversational audio summaries. Available even in the free version of Gemini 2.5 Flash, this
Identifying specific clinical findings in unstructured medical texts is a common challenge in healthcare data science. In this post, we benchmark Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash language model on a zero-shot classification task: detecting the presence or absence of distal fibula fractures in real-world German radiology reports. Without any
Can large language models return accurate results when asked to find real academic texts written by specific philosophers on a specific topic? In this case, the topic was Marxist theory — and the instruction was to list peer-reviewed publications in which Gilles Deleuze or Michel Foucault offer a critique of it.
What if philosophy students could go beyond reading about Kant and Hume — and instead step into their minds? What if, instead of summarising the Critique of Pure Reason, they became Hume and challenged Kant directly on causality, synthetic a priori knowledge, or the limits of metaphysics? This blog introduces a
What does Hegel really mean when he claims that “what is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational”? This widely quoted — and frequently misunderstood — statement from the Preface to the Philosophy of Right has been interpreted as everything from a defence of the political status quo to an
