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Not too long ago, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana starred in a (loose) adaptation of Homer's epic
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Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of
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Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it "goes on doing something
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It's not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start saying that
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Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it.
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As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily su
It wasn't that long ago, historically speaking, that you might put on your tuxedo or floor-length ev
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One common feature of complex systems is sensitive dependence on initial conditions: a small change
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Being rational necessarily involves engagement with probability. Given two possible courses of actio
