166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
In the question to understand the biology of life, we are (so far) limited to what happened here on Earth. […]
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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AMA | September 2021
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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
How human beings behave is, for fairly evident reasons, a topic of intense interest to human beings. And yet, not
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
There is no general theory of problem-solving, or even a reliable set of principles that will usually work. It’s therefore
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Economies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
Plato and Aristotle founded much of what we think of as Western philosophy during the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.
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AMA | August 2021
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines
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