161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Economies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative […]
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
Plato and Aristotle founded much of what we think of as Western philosophy during the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.
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AMA | August 2021
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines
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158 | David Wallace on The Arrow of Time
The arrow of time — all the ways in which the past differs from the future — is a fascinating
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
Natural selection has done a pretty good job at creating a wide variety of living species, but we humans can’t
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156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
How can data be biased? Isn’t it supposed to be an objective reflection of the real world? We all know
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
It’s not easy, figuring out the fundamental laws of physics. It’s even harder when your chosen methodology is to essentially
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AMA | July 2021
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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
Religion is an important part of the lives of billions of people around the world, but what religious belief actually
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