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From the Mouths of Babes and Birds
Babies learn to speak months after they begin to understand language. As they are learning to talk, they babble,...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman
In a letter to the botanist Asa Gray written in 1860, a year after the publication of On the...
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The Man Who Knew Moses But Not His Own Son
“Nissim”, a 64 year old man, knows that the word for the eldest son in a family is the...
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Cosmic Awe
As many of you know, I’m fortunate enough to live in a city that values science and scientific knowledge...
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Want to Learn How to Think? Read Fiction
Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It’s a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that...
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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci?...
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Computers That You Eat (or That Eat You?)
Ray Kurzweil’s dream of internal nanobots floating around our bloodstream making us immortal by eradicating diseases and slowing down...
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Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers New Clues to the Universe’s Origins
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would...
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Does Life Have A Purpose?
I don’t mean our private lives, our personal choices and hopes, the plans we make along the years. I...