From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

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Vaclav Smil on the Strange Choices We Make

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Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

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Considering the Intersections of Literature and Science

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Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Reissue of John G. Fuller's The Interrupted Journey

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 10, 2022

What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

John Higgs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

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Scott Hershovitz in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

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Sy Montgomery on the Lessons of the Natural World

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Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

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Audrey Schulman on the Limits of Scientific Terminology

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Steven Kotler in Conversation With Andrew Keen

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On the Romance and Wonder of Victorian Science

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