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Enough Already With This ‘Theory Of Everything’
Last week I wrote about some of the themes from my book A Tear at the Edge of Creation....
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Four Reasons You Shouldn’t Exist
You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me,...
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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
A few recent events, including the launch of Nautilus and this interesting thread on Brian Leiter’s blog, have brought...
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Is Space Digital?
Craig Hogan believes that the world is fuzzy. This is not a metaphor. Hogan, a physicist at the University...
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Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’
What is biological immortality? To be fair, it’s not the promise of a paradisiacal garden. Neither is it the...
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on...
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New Kind of Magnetism Discovered
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind...
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James Gates: The Pain and Pleasures of Science
As a ball rolled down an incline, young Sylvester James Gates, along with the other students in his class,...
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Beyond Higgs: on Supersymmetry (or Lack Thereof)
With the search for the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, apparently...
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Triple-Bonded Boron Opens New Chemical World
In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws...