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Placebo Effects: Psychology’s Fundamental Flaw? Why active controls are not enough
A new paper published in Perspectives in Psychological Science (open access) suggests there is “a fundamental design flaw that...
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The Surprising Origins of Life’s Complexity
Charles Darwin was not yet 30 when he got the basic idea for the theory of evolution. But it...
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Gruber Foundation Announces 2013 Cosmology Prize Recipients
The Gruber Foundation, a Type 1 supporting organization operated and supervised by Yale University, has announced the recipients of...
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What is epigenetics?
As plenty of frustrated middle-aged readers will know, exercise does not always lead to a drop in waist size....
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More Is Different: Nature’s Unruly Complexity
According to reductionism, every system, no matter how complex, can be understood in terms of the behavior of its...
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Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
Our paper discusses three very old “cosmologies” in Western thought, how these play out in economic theory, and how...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
Soccer fans call it brave goalkeeping, the act of springing into a star shape in front of an attacker...
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Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles”...
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How Wonder Works
When I was growing up in New York City, a high point of my calendar was the annual arrival...