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In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had… | Continue reading
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When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There’s something special among them that’s missing when they perform alone. Anyone… | Continue reading
In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had… | Continue reading
It’s now fashionable, when something has you mildly obsessed, to say that it is “living rent-free in your head.” Well, in my… | Continue reading
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Blaise Pascal was a renowned French polymath of the 17th century, scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and later in life… | 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
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Blaise Pascal was a renowned French polymath of the 17th century, scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and later in life… | 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
There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different. Without someone to fight… | Continue reading
There’s a silent epidemic slowly brewing around the globe. It hasn’t claimed as many lives as COVID-19, but if it gets out of… | Continue reading
There’s a silent epidemic slowly brewing around the globe. It hasn’t claimed as many lives as COVID-19, but if it gets out of… | Continue reading
Blaise Pascal was a renowned French polymath of the 17th century, scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and later in life… | 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
There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different. Without someone to fight… | Continue reading
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If you look at every ape protein, they have every bone we have, every muscle we have, the same type of hair, and on and on. They’re… | Continue reading
Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It… | Continue reading
On the dark night of March 13, 1781, William Herschel settled down in his garden observatory in Bath, England, for a routine night… | Continue reading
On the dark night of March 13, 1781, William Herschel settled down in his garden observatory in Bath, England, for a routine night… | Continue reading
On the dark night of March 13, 1781, William Herschel settled down in his garden observatory in Bath, England, for a routine night… | Continue reading
Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It… | Continue reading
In our evolving understanding of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex has acquired a new persona in recent decades. It’s always been the… | Continue reading
Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It… | Continue reading
In our evolving understanding of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex has acquired a new persona in recent decades. It’s always been the… | Continue reading
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The deep sea is a part of our planet unlike any other. Accounting for over 95 percent of Earth’s living space, it is cold, dark,… | Continue reading
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The deep sea is a part of our planet unlike any other. Accounting for over 95 percent of Earth’s living space, it is cold, dark,… | Continue reading
The push by AIDS activists for an effective treatment was a breakthrough in the medical industry. It showed the power of a grassroots… | Continue reading
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It’s hard to argue with the famously authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, but its definition of physics as the “branch of… | Continue reading
Six weeks ago, a reporter, Nicholas Wade, published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest… | Continue reading
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Part of Dennis Plenker’s daily job is growing cancer. And a variety of different ones, too.Depending on the day and the project,… | Continue reading
Six weeks ago, a reporter, Nicholas Wade, published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest… | Continue reading