AMA | September 2022
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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
There is no human endeavor that does not have a theory of it — a set of ideas about what
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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
It’s always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not
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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as
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AMA | August 2022
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205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
The idea of an “interest rate” might seem mundane and practical, in comparison to our usual topics around here, but
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun (or
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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
We describe the world using language — we can’t help it. And we all know that ordinary language is an
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AMA | July 2022
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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rages around the topic
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