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Is ancient DNA research revealing new truths or falling into old traps? Robots use imagination to learn concepts. Poons vs Koons. Towards a general theory of neural networks. The concept of the corporation. A robot reveals how ancient reptile moved. Frederick Eberhardt about causality. And more.
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How to be an artist. The Burgess shale. Spider silk is stronger than steel. Humpback whale songs undergo a cultural revolution every few years. The insect apocalypse. René Girard. The US opioid crisis. Understanding Russia’s two hybrid wars. Global warming will happen faster than we think. And more.
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Quantifying reputation and success in art. Transforming the global food system. Tales from the Warhol Factory. What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick? Interview with David Foster Wallace. The Art Institute of Chicago has uploaded 50,000 high-resolution images from their collection. And more.
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How the urban jungle drives evolution. The big meltdown. Repackaging Stoicism for the 21st Century. Shred the Love: The Director's Cut. Interview with Bruno Latour. The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits. Can optical illusions fool AI? And more.
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Physics needs philosophy. CRISPR. An alternative interpretation of the gorillas in our midst experiment. The big melt. There is more to behavioral economics than biases and fallacies. Michael Freeden on the contemporary role of political theory. Chris Marker’s playful aesthetics. And more.
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A brief history of behavioral economics. What makes a tree a tree? The Gaia space observatory. Neural networks spontaneously evolved grid cells. The IceBridge expedition to the Antarctic. Freeman Dyson reviews Scale by Geoffrey West. The disappearing jobs of yesterday. Daido Moriyama. And much more.
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Are most real world complex networks are scale-free? No longer writing, Philip Roth still has plenty to say. Why paper jams persist. Is the era of quantum computing here? Inside the Amazon's deforestation crisis. Three recent books about science's inference problem. Rongorongo. And more.
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Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain. Classifying all possible phases of matter. What makes a perfect croissant. Why an old theory of everything is gaining new life. Thomas Kuhn’s revolutionary ideas. Is evolutionary science due for an overhaul? What Unicode will make possible. And more.
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