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Cosmic Awe
By the Editor on June 27, 2013
As many of you know, I’m fortunate enough to live in a city that values science and scientific knowledge...
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Want to Learn How to Think? Read Fiction
By the Editor on June 25, 2013
Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It’s a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that...
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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
By the Editor on June 25, 2013
What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci?...
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Computers That You Eat (or That Eat You?)
By the Editor on June 25, 2013
Ray Kurzweil’s dream of internal nanobots floating around our bloodstream making us immortal by eradicating diseases and slowing down...
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Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers New Clues to the Universe’s Origins
By the Editor on June 25, 2013
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would...
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Does Life Have A Purpose?
By the Editor on June 24, 2013
I don’t mean our private lives, our personal choices and hopes, the plans we make along the years. I...
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“BigBrain” a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind
By the Editor on June 21, 2013
Imagine taking a map of a city, shredding it into 7,400 pieces, and then putting it back together. You...
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The Internet of Things
By the Editor on June 21, 2013
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct...
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The Trolley Problem With Science
By the Editor on June 21, 2013
Imagine a scientist who does an experiment, and doesn’t like the results. Perhaps the scientist had hoped to see...
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The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash
By the Editor on June 20, 2013
Aristotle thought that the function of the brain was to cool the blood. That seems ludicrous now; through neuroscience,...
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