AMA | October 2025
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include “constants of nature” such as the cosmological constant and
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330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
A characteristic of complex systems is that individual components combine to exhibit large-scale emergent behavior even when the components were
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329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it’s not enough that
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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Like any machine, bodies occasionally break down, and it’s natural to go in search of a replacement part. Ancient societies
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AMA | September 2025
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327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
“Liberalism,” divorced from its particular connotations in this or that modern political context, refers broadly to a philosophy of individual
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326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
In a relatively short period of time, exoplanets (planets around stars other than our Sun) have gone from an intriguing
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325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
The world is becoming pixelated. As computers and other digital devices become ubiquitous, human knowledge and communication and information is
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324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
It is not manifestly obvious that universities should be where most scholarly research is performed. One could imagine systems that
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