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How Game Theory Can Help Organ Donors Find Their Match

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How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

Steven Mithen on the Science of Language Acquisition in Early Childhood

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Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Alan Townsend on Metamorphosis, Disintegration and Confronting His Fears As a Father

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In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

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Ed Simon on the Porous, Ever-Shifting Boundaries Between Science and Speculation

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Can We Reschedule? In Praise of Carl Sagan, Iconic Pothead

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Gabrielle Bellot on the Many Benefits of Marijuana (and a Man Who Was Ahead of His Time)

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