144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
I’ve been a professional physicist since the 1980’s, and not once over the course of my career has a particle-physics […]
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
Mom, apple pie, and rationality — all things that are unquestionably good, right? But rationality, as much as we might
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AMA | April 2021
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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
Telling a story seems like the most natural, human thing in the world. We all do it, all the time.
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
“Time” and “the brain” are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real world, would take it
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AMA | March 2021
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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on opposite ends. Math is
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