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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.
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Social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. Yale University will receive 136.20 euros in interest on a perpetual bond issued in 1648 from a Dutch water authority. The Mouse of Wall Street. Duration of urination. Oliver Sacks has passed away. And more.
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John Conway’s life in games. What happens to your checked luggage. Obituary for John Holland. Ten reforms the Troika would impose on Germany. Mathematicians have discovered a new type of pentagon that can tile the plane. Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid. Earth view. And more.
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Interview with Alvin Roth on matching theory. A debate on effective altruism. The LHCb Experiment at CERN discovers a new type of particle made up of 5 quarks. Kim Kardashian explains why marginal propensity to consume decreases as income rises. FAO Schwarz is closing. And more.
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What the textbooks don't tell you about psychology's most famous case study. A profile Maryam Mirzakhani. Marina Warner reviews old and new editions of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. The best time to post on social networks. Who needs CGI when you've got more than 20,000 extras? And more.
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What is code? One of the oldest problems in combinatorics has been solved. Calculate your risk of dying in the next 5 years. The mathematical legacy of John Nash. The Atlantic has republished Host by David Foster Wallace. Karl Ove Knausgaard on Anders Breivik. Profile of Marc Andreessen. And more.
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Rem Koolhaas on the danger of turning cities into historical Disneylands. Peter Pomerantsev on information-psychological war. Why Dutch people are so tall. Smart people worry more. The evolution of American popular music between 1960–2010. Interview with Slavoj Zizek. And more.
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Why real interest rates are low. Gerhard Richter on the art market bubble. Interview with Rem Koolhaas. Part 2 of Knausgaard’s passage through America. Abhijit Banerjee on what we know and don’t know about microcredit. A strange connection between number theory, algebra and string theory. And more.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is traveling across America. Interview with John Ioannidis. Interview with Yasmina Reza. The selfish ribosome. In Balanchine’s beautiful forest. Art as an asset class. The idea of two sexes is simplistic. The problem with action movies today. In search of authenticity. And more.