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What Do Michael Jordan and the Dalai Lama Have in Common?

What Do Michael Jordan and the Dalai Lama Have in Common?

Edward Brodkin and Ashley Pallathra on Relaxed Awareness

By Edward Brodkin and Ashley Pallathra | January 28, 2021

An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

Avi Loeb Considers the Greatest Scientific Anomaly of Our Age

By Avi Loeb | January 26, 2021

From the Golden Age to... Roombas: 8 Essential Books About Artificial Intelligence

From the Golden Age to... Roombas: 8 Essential Books About Artificial Intelligence

Michael Wooldridge Helps Us Prepare for Our Robert Overlords

By Michael Wooldridge | January 25, 2021

On the Long, Baseless History of Anti-Vaccination Movements

On the Long, Baseless History of Anti-Vaccination Movements

And How Doctors Have Enabled Anti-Vaxxers

By Charles Kenny | January 22, 2021

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

Janice P. Nimura on Her Research Process for The Doctors Blackwell

By Janice P. Nimura | January 20, 2021

Do Dogs Really Dream?

Do Dogs Really Dream?

Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold on the Mysteries of Canine Sleep

By Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold | January 20, 2021

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Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

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On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

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Martha Cooley Considers the Sociological Significance of Utter Ennui

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How to Read <em>Ulysses</em> <br>By the Numbers

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Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

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