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  • Science’s Humanities Gap

    By on September 19, 2013

    In his recent sermon to humanists, “Science Is Not Your Enemy,” the psychologist Steven Pinker makes an impressive plea...

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  • No Child Left Untableted

    By on September 14, 2013

    Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I...

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  • Overpopulation Is Not the Problem

    By on September 14, 2013

    The only limits to creating a planet that future generations will be proud of are our imaginations and our...

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  • The Science of Big Science

    By on September 12, 2013

    Science is getting bigger. Just about every scientific discipline — astronomy, conservation, drug development, genetics, neuroscience, physics — is...

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  • Miraculous Conception: Are Planets Forming Without Stars?

    By on September 10, 2013

    One of the most remarkable discoveries about exoplanets—planets that exist outside of our solar system—is that some of them...

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  • Parallel Worlds

    By on September 6, 2013

    Andy Murray’s unexpectedly strong start against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2012 final put the Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew...

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  • Enough Already With This ‘Theory Of Everything’

    By on September 3, 2013

    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

    By on September 3, 2013

    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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  • Are We Martians After All?

    By on August 30, 2013

    If you looked in a mirror this morning, you may have seen a descendant of creatures from Mars. That...

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  • New Element 115, Ununpentium, May Join Periodic Table

    By on August 29, 2013

    The periodic table of the elements has grown ever since the first version was published by Dmitri Mendeleev in...

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