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Cosmic Voyage
By the Editor on July 12, 2013
Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film that explores the scale of the universe from the quantum level...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
By the Editor on July 9, 2013
Soccer fans call it brave goalkeeping, the act of springing into a star shape in front of an attacker...
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How Wonder Works
By the Editor on July 3, 2013
When I was growing up in New York City, a high point of my calendar was the annual arrival...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman
By the Editor on July 2, 2013
In a letter to the botanist Asa Gray written in 1860, a year after the publication of On the...
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Infections, Institutions, & Life History: Searching For The Origins Of Individualism & Collectivism
By the Editor on July 1, 2013
The life of Ferdinand Tonnies, German sociologist and political activist, is a testament to the dramatic social changes which...
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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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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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Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years?
By the Editor on June 20, 2013
A new map of the seafloor off the coast of Iberia—the region of Europe that includes Portugal and Spain—has...
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