298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
The number of neurons in the human brain is comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. […]
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AMA | December 2024
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
Not too long ago, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana starred in a (loose) adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad;
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are
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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of higher-level emergent properties helps render the
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AMA | November 2024
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it “goes on doing something… for a much longer
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
A large economy is one of the best examples we have of complex dynamics. There are multiple components arranged in
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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
It’s not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start
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AMA | October 2024
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