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There is no human endeavor that does not have a theory of it — a set of ideas about what makes it wo
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Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wide
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The idea of an “interest rate” might seem mundane and practical, in comparison to our usual topics a
Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than
We describe the world using language — we can’t help it. And we all know that ordinary language is a
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The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rag
All of us construct models of the world, and update them on the basis of evidence brought to us by o
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The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate,
Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to bi
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The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringin
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To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual
