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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail. Noise. The universe’s topology. Intrinsic simplicity of complex systems. How Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality. Collective intelligence. Survival of the nicest. Air pollution. Everyone’s a sellout now. And more.
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Claire Voisin on mathematical creativity. How the Big Bang got its name. The Vela supernova remnant. The miracle of modern chip manufacturing. The ‘Mother Tree’ idea is everywhere, but how much of it is real? Vladimir Nabokov. Michel Talagrand. Virginia Woolf. And more.
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Why tumour naming needs to change. Causation in neuroscience. The decimal point. Dark matter. How people can become happier. Categories we live by. Linnaeus. Spinoza. Claire Voisin. John Nash. Thomas Ostermeier. And more.
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How to have a more productive year. The consciousness wars. The cerebellum. The Mandelbrot set revisited. The cause of depression. The meaning of a dog’s tail wag. Math and literature. Witchcraft. Tool. And more.
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Patricia Lockwood on meeting with the Pope. How Lea Ypi defines freedom. Siddharta Mukherjee on carcinogens we cannot see. An atlas of human brain cells. The fate of free will. Ed Ruscha. Gerhard Richter. And more.
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What causes fainting? Canada's year of fire. Curiosity. The science that paved the way for the Higgs boson. A neural network with the ability to make generalizations about language. Global warming. Issey Miyake. And more.
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The lived experience of depression. What dreams are for. What mathematics really is. The era-defining aesthetic of “In the Mood for Love”. How to write a great grant application. A short story by Claire-Louise Bennett. And more.
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Patricia Lockwood on David Foster Wallace. Creative grief and how to deal with it. The tyranny of the tale. Light pollution. Anselm Kiefer. Gerhard Richter. Arnold Schoenberg. Larry Gagosian. And more.
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The benefit of meditative walks. Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper. Brain geometry. The history of rules. An infinite tiling pattern. Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution. And more.
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LIGO is back. How the tongue shaped life on earth. Science in the making. Chronic stress can inflame the gut. A guide to thesis writing that is a guide to life. Rosalind Franklin. Balanchine. Piranesi. And more.
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Slavoj Žižek on thinking the end of nature. AI needs to understand consequences. The future of literary criticism. The 2023 Abel Prize. An aperiodic monotile. Patricia Lockwood. Daido Moriyama. Adolf Loos. And more.
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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.