The Greek statesman Demosthenes is credited with saying “I am a citizen of the world,” and the idea that we […]
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Physics is simple; people are complicated. But even people are ultimately physical systems, made of particles and forces that follow
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Wilfrid Sellars described the task of philosophy as explaining how things, in the broadest sense of term, hang together, in
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It’s too easy to take laws of nature for granted. Sure, gravity is pulling us toward Earth today; but how
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We’ve talked a lot recently about the Many Worlds of quantum mechanics. That’s one kind of multiverse that physicists often
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The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected parts. It’s hardly
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All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable mistake,
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There are many mysteries surrounding quantum mechanics. To me, the biggest mysteries are why physicists haven’t yet agreed on a
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What does it mean to be a good person? To act ethically and morally in the world? In the old
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It’s fun to spend time thinking about how other people should behave, but fortunately we also have an inner voice
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