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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.
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Steven Weinberg on the trouble with quantum mechanics. Two essays about Arrival. Why whales leap into the air. How life turns asymmetric. Neuroscience needs behavior. How life (and death) spring from disorder. Cartoon drawings by Gerhard Richter. Nature makes chance, humans make luck. And more.
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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.