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Diffusion models. The decline in disruptive science. Gamifying behavioural experiments. Combining reinforcement learning and LLM. Unlucky numbers. Matisse. Theaster Gates. Hans Belting. And more.
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The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Medicine. Is it time to give up caffeine? Mathematicians prove melting ice stays smooth. Daido Moriyama. Shame Tomatsu. René Pollesch. Paul Celan. W.G. Sebald. Slavoj Zizek. And more.
Nerve links between brain and other organs. The landscapes inside us. The mystery at the heart of physics. The goodness paradox. The long reach of family ties. What is a complex system? NFTs. Computer-assisted proofs. White matter and human behavior. Melanie Mitchell. And more.
A new law of human travel. The NFT art market. mRNA vaccines for other diseases. What to do with dead car batteries? The future of fracking. Chernobyl again. 52 fragrances and how to think about them. Michel Foucault. Adam Curtis. Carlo Rovelli. And more.
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