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16/08/2016 - 16:39

Keep going along this curve, and you get to the freaks among freaks—competitors who shatter records and push limits beyond imagination.... →

07/08/2016 - 13:12

Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car? We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →

02/08/2016 - 13:31

“Ghetto” is never strident or even particularly argumentative. Nonetheless, its story repeatedly emphasizes the failures of the apolitical... →

25/07/2016 - 15:54

Many physicists have made peace with the idea of a block universe, arguing that the task of the physicist is to describe how the universe... →

21/07/2016 - 12:58

The only entity that bothered to bring up questions of ethics in the early 1990s was the church, the only carrier of non-authoritarian... →

11/07/2016 - 14:49

The title of your book is The Inevitable. What does that mean, and why did you choose it? It’s sort of slightly controversial because many... →

09/07/2016 - 12:37

Sex is unknown in bacteria – the simplest and most ancient living cells on Earth – that reproduce by simply splitting into two. Evolving... →

01/07/2016 - 18:39

Sure, humans and dolphins aren’t as disparate as, say, humans and octopus; our last shared ancestor with the latter crawled the Earth about... →

20/06/2016 - 13:58

Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, examines how Kofi Annan, George Soros, Peter Sutherland, and others... →

14/06/2016 - 14:59

In January, for example, a group at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts said they had homed in on most of the genes involved in... →

10/06/2016 - 14:33

The Austrian Catholic church logged 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016, with the Austrian pastoral... →

06/06/2016 - 13:30

To understand this loss, we must first define what we mean by “complexity” in the scientific sense. Consider a Rube Goldberg machine, in... →

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