Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black hol
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“A way that math can make the world a better place is by making it a more interesting place to be a
The world has gone through a tough time with the COVID-19 pandemic. Every catastrophic event is uniq
I’ve been a professional physicist since the 1980’s, and not once over the course of my career has a
Mom, apple pie, and rationality — all things that are unquestionably good, right? But rationality, a
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Telling a story seems like the most natural, human thing in the world. We all do it, all the time. A
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention
“Time” and “the brain” are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard fo
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and
You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real worl
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On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on oppos
The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But it
In our postmodern world, studying the classics of ancient Greece and Rome can seem quaint at best, d
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A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determin
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the simple
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As a semi-outsider, it’s fun for me to watch as a new era dawns in biology: one that adds ideas from
