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Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the… | Continue reading
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On a June morning in 1908, above a sleepy forest in the Siberian Taiga plush with larches, spruces, and black bears, something flashed… | Continue reading
Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the… | Continue reading
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On a June morning in 1908, above a sleepy forest in the Siberian Taiga plush with larches, spruces, and black bears, something flashed… | Continue reading
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The novelist William Golding suggested to James Lovelock that he name his now-famous hypothesis after the Greek goddess of the Earth,… | Continue reading
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The novelist William Golding suggested to James Lovelock that he name his now-famous hypothesis after the Greek goddess of the Earth,… | 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
The novelist William Golding suggested to James Lovelock that he name his now-famous hypothesis after the Greek goddess of the Earth,… | Continue reading
When I was about 6, my mind did something wondrous, although it felt perfectly natural at the time. When I encountered the name of… | 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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Consider Data, the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Suppose he finds himself on a hostile planet, surrounded by aliens… | Continue reading
In 1996, Yale economist William D. Nordhaus calculated that the average citizen of Babylon would have had to work a total of 41 hours… | Continue reading
Karl Friston wanted me to know he had plenty of time. That wasn’t quite true. He just didn’t want our conversation—about his… | Continue reading
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When Ernest Sternglass walked up the steps at 112 Mercer Street in April 1947, he knew it would not be a normal day. Like a church… | Continue reading
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The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often… | Continue reading
When Ernest Sternglass walked up the steps at 112 Mercer Street in April 1947, he knew it would not be a normal day. Like a church… | Continue reading