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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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Interview with Jürgen Habermas. Machine learning confronts the elephant in the room. A new kind of neuron. Rick Owens. A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony. Andy Warhol's photography archive is online. Your gut is directly connected to your brain. William Eggleston. 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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Slavoj Zizek reviews Blade Runner 2049. The "Humpty Dumpty" particle. Artists with a day job. The role of luck in life success. 7 years after Fukushima. AI is grappling with a replication crisis. Geert Lovink on distraction and its discontents. Interviews with Jean Tirole and Bruno Latour. And 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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A story by Ali Smith. Why write fiction in 2017? Clemens Setz visits the Netherlands. The last remaining speaker of Taushiro. Goethe. What bullets do to bodies. A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes. The correspondence of Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia. And more.
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Corina Tarnita deciphers patterns in soil created by competing life-forms. How memories form and recall works. Inequality in nature and society. A literary tour of the U.S. Žižek on ideology as the original augmented reality. Workforce implications of machine learning. Books about bread. And more.
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Why certain glaciers are prone to surging abruptly. 21 essential albums from ECM’s catalog. Interview with Edward Witten. Steven Mithen on why our ancestors started farming. Phil Klay on war as a test of religious faith. Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now do a backflip. And more.