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Why Javier Marias hates theatre. Slavoj Zizek doesn't like theatre performances either. How Google used AI to transform Google Translate. An interview with Jürgen Habermas. Freeman Dyson on working with the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Andrew Wiles on doing maths. And more.
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Feynman diagrams. The woman who sued McDonald's because the coffee she spilled on herself was too hot. Advice from burglars. Interview with Tom Ford. Did Primo Levi really kill himself? Revenue is up, but audiences are down in New York City’s dance industry. The afterlife of a ballerina. And more.
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Adam Curtis’ new film HyperNormalisation. Interview with Sir Andrew Wiles. Ten famous psychology findings that it’s been difficult to replicate. The work of Madeline Gins. Slavoj Žižek on why we shouldn’t pity or romanticize refugees. You probably don’t need dental X-rays every year. And more.
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Hyperuniformity. A profile of Alphabet's X research lab. Two introductions to machine learning. An interview with Matthew Gentzkow on the future of media economics. The frontiers of physics appear not to have moved much in recent years. The Mashco Piro, an indigenous tribe from Peru. And more.
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LIGO has detected another burst of gravitational waves from merging black holes. A surprising solution to a decades-old combinatorics problem. A new proof is helping connect the mathematics of infinity to the physical world. The world’s most spectacular climbing routes in 360 panoramas. And more.
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Moving from naive to purposeful practice can dramatically increase performance. Philip Ball on physics as a way of thinking. Brief interview with linguist Sarah Thomason on how languages interact and change over time. Brian Greene on the spectacular discovery of gravitational waves. And more.
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Excellent critical essay on Wittgenstein. Hilary Putnam has passed away. The ego depletion effect may be wrong. I, too, try not to be pedantic about conditionals. How Snapchat built a business. Bringing some rigor to the math of melody. The 2016 Abel Prize goes to Andrew Wiles. And more.
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The detection of gravitational waves confirmed. The brain’s sense of space and time are intertwined. A profile of Marvin Minsky. When philosophy lost its way. Interview with Gerhard Richter. The physics of flocking birds and swarming molecules. Images from 5 years of Lagos Photo Fest. And more.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the terrible beauty of brain surgery. More Knausgaard. A conversation with Philippe Descola. 5 science myths that won’t die. The top 25 science stories of 2015. For male peacock spiders, the best dancers get the girl. Causes of death in Shakespeare’s plays charted. And more.
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The Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich. A Q&A with Gerd Gigerenzer. Excerpt from Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell. The books of the year according to The Economist and the Financial Times. An interview with the American art critic and historian Hal Foster. And more.
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A conversation with Jürgen Habermas. A promising idea in complexity theory. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art houses one of the world's greatest unseen collections of modern art. The average walking times between central London's Tube stations. René Girard has passed away. And more.
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Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics. Karl Ove Knausgård on the role of editors and the practice of writing. Angus Deaton Nobel Prize in economics. A brief introduction to the history and mathematics of labyrinths. Yale University has put 170,000 photos of the US from 1935 to 1945 online. And more.