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A new theory may explain the success of deep learning. How do you make an AI curious? Why people migrate to the West. What the US heroin epidemic looks like. How many infinities are there? The semiotics of emoji. Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah. A trucker’s tales of life on the road. And more.
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The future of Himalayan glaciers. Imagining creativity beyond "Nature" and "Culture". Claude Shannon and the nature of information. Photos from the Cassini mission. How to choose wisely. Hidden memories of plants. Our genetic prehistory. Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better? And more.
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The mind of the octopus. How much more can we learn about the universe? A pre-history of post-truth. Religious freedom in Europe was driven by statecraft. The greatest civilization ever forgotten? J.M. Coetzee on a great writer we should know. 100 books set in/about Los Angeles. And more.
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Charles Taylor on some conditions of a viable democracy. Alaska's permafrost is thawing. An appreciation of Fernando Pessoa. Arthur Schopenhauer the first European Buddhist. Francis Fukuyama still believes in progress. The mysteries of the Russian mindset. Karl Ove Knausgaard by the book. And more.
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A new inventory of the universe’s dark contents. How your mind protects you against hallucinations. You are the product. The curious conundrum of Freud’s persistent influence. The LA rag trade. Books we don't understand. How to defeat procrastination. A blue pigment. Computer music. And much more.
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A Nash equilibrium is often impossible to reach efficiently. Space may not be not what you think it is. The strange topology that is reshaping physics. Hitchcock talks about film making. The clothing choices of the homeless. Uber's hard-charging corporate culture. An appraisal of Raphael. And more.
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A new gravitational wave discovery. Martin Scorsese on filmmaking. Reconstructing faces from neural population responses. Amazing new picture of Jupiter. China's great rivers. Is conspicuous consumption over? Regret. The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming. And more.
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A new theory of the history of life on Earth. The mathematics of juggling. Can a mind can be located outside of the head? Chris Ware on Saul Steinberg. Where oil rigs go to die. The world is running out of sand. The quantum thermodynamics revolution. The pleasures of pessimism. And more.
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Where have all the insects gone? Why Amazon is eating the world. Listeners prefer new violins and are unable to distinguish between new and old violins. Empire of Things. Louis Kahn. Using homes as ATMs. Cosmic inflation faces challenges. Two books about owls. An amazing dinosaur find. And more.
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A conversation with Christof Koch. Links stehen, rechts gehen? Why people prefer unequal societies. Some useful heuristics from the analytical philosophy tool kit. Some thoughts about Comme des Garçons. Negative mass. How lizards get their spots. Why shoelaces fail. Christophe Guilluy. And more.
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Michel Foucault's work on power (and its corollary freedom) is as relevant today as it was in the 70s. Sometimes entropy leads to order. Damien Hirst about his upcoming exhibition, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable. A CERN experiment discovers not one, but five new particles. And more.
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How to be a stoic: For such a small price, I buy tranquility. An essay about Heiner Müller. On the romantic fiction of a world without money. Claudio Borio on financial cycles, secular stagnation and monetary policy. Sylvia Serfaty talks about mathematics, truth and beauty. And more.