198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time […]
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from
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AMA | May 2022
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but
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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Evolution has equipped species with a variety of ways to travel through the air — flapping, gliding, floating, not to
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Photo: Robin Lubbock/WBUR Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others.
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193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Every time we make an important decision, it’s hard not to wonder how things would have turned out had we
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AMA | April 2022
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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Steampunk Quantum Thermodynamics
Randomness and probability are central to modern physics. In statistical mechanics this is because we don’t know everything about the
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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at
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