Here are three versions of the same story:1. In the fall of 1996, Sally Clark, an English solicitor in Manchester, gave birth to an… | Continue reading
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. (She was also the daughter of the poet… | Continue reading
When Dan Scheffey turned 50, he threw himself a party. About 100 people packed into his Manhattan apartment, which occupies the third… | Continue reading
Here are three versions of the same story:1. In the fall of 1996, Sally Clark, an English solicitor in Manchester, gave birth to an… | Continue reading
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. (She was also the daughter of the poet… | Continue reading
It is possible to imagine, explore, and promote forms of consciousness that enhance awareness as well as dissolve the artificial illusions… | Continue reading
It is possible to imagine, explore, and promote forms of consciousness that enhance awareness as well as dissolve the artificial illusions… | Continue reading
The members of the physics institute at Via Panisperna were in the habit of giving themselves jocular nicknames: Enrico Fermi was… | Continue reading
When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There’s something special among them that’s missing when they perform alone. Anyone… | Continue reading
Antonio Ereditato insists that our interview be carried out through Skype with both cameras on. Just the other side of middle age,… | Continue reading
Is a fictional test designed to distinguish between replicants and humans, called the Voight-Kampff test, feasible?Universo Produção… | Continue reading
Christof Koch, a leading researcher on consciousness and the human brain, has famously called the brain “the most complex object… | Continue reading
When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There’s something special among them that’s missing when they perform alone. Anyone… | Continue reading
Christof Koch, a leading researcher on consciousness and the human brain, has famously called the brain “the most complex object… | Continue reading
Most poker players didn’t go to graduate school for cognitive linguistics. Then again, most poker players aren’t Annie Duke. After… | Continue reading
For more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting… | Continue reading
The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known.Photograph by Bs0u10e01 / WikicommonsThe mysteries… | Continue reading
I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces ... I trawled the constellations,… | Continue reading
The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known.Photograph by Bs0u10e01 / WikicommonsThe mysteries… | Continue reading
Perhaps free will won’t forever be an issue philosophers mull over for a lifetime. Whatever the result, there’s always the ironic… | Continue reading
Perhaps free will won’t forever be an issue philosophers mull over for a lifetime. Whatever the result, there’s always the ironic… | Continue reading
For more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting… | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon made what he called the “most historic phone call ever.” Houston had put him… | Continue reading
I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces ... I trawled the constellations,… | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon made what he called the “most historic phone call ever.” Houston had put him… | Continue reading
For more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.By studying a swarm of flying midges as though it were a… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.By studying a swarm of flying midges as though it were a… | Continue reading
Dr. Edwin C. Krupp has spent more than 40 years researching how ancient cultures worshipped and studied the parade of celestial lights—the… | Continue reading
Errol Morris feels that Thomas Kuhn saved him from a career he was not suited for—by having him thrown out of Princeton. In 1972,… | Continue reading
What might be more puzzling than the innards of a black hole is the trouble of defining one in the first place.WikicommonsWhen I was… | Continue reading
What might be more puzzling than the innards of a black hole is the trouble of defining one in the first place.WikicommonsWhen I was… | Continue reading
Today the alkaline desert is quiet. The roar of techno music and flamethrowers has been replaced with the soft clink of rakes and… | Continue reading
In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack… | Continue reading
In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack… | Continue reading
Living in the flat, arid landscape of the Kalahari, meerkats are one of the most cooperative species of mammal on the planet. The… | Continue reading
Today the alkaline desert is quiet. The roar of techno music and flamethrowers has been replaced with the soft clink of rakes and… | Continue reading
The act of recalling something that happened to you looks very much like what happens when you imagine something new.Photograph by… | Continue reading
For more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting… | Continue reading
The act of recalling something that happened to you looks very much like what happens when you imagine something new.Photograph by… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Imagine if all our scientific theories and models told us… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Imagine if all our scientific theories and models told us… | Continue reading
It is winter in upstate New York, on a morning so cold the ground squeaks loudly underfoot as sharp-finned ice crystals rub together.… | Continue reading
Halfway through director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, Sandra Bullock suffers the most cosmic case of homesick blues since Keir Dullea… | Continue reading
I doubt that any phenomenon, real or imagined, has inspired more perplexing, convoluted, and ultimately futile philosophical analysis… | Continue reading
My father, a neurologist, once had a patient who was tormented, in the most visceral sense, by a poem. Philip was 12 years old and… | Continue reading
I pour a cup of coffee, sharpen my pencil, and get ready to create. I’ve dusted off a half-conceived novel outline I abandoned three… | Continue reading
Once you start poking around in the muck of consciousness studies, you will soon encounter the specter of Sir Roger Penrose, the renowned… | Continue reading