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Buckminster Fuller Institute’s “Dymax Redux”
Seventy years after its invention, the Buckminster Fuller Institute has organized a competition challenging graphic designers, visual artists, and...
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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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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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The Value of Creativity and Imagination
SciAm excerpts Maria Konnikova’s “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes“: “It is surprising that people do not believe...
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Games for Science
Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators...
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Theory That Music Is Uniquely Human Is for the Birds
A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests...
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Award-Winning Pictures of the Tiniest Things on Earth
This incredible image of fern spores is just one of the many mind-blowing images that won the Olympus BioScapes...
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Neanderthals May Have Sailed to Crete
Neanderthals, or even older Homo erectus (“Upright Man”) might have sailed around the Mediterranean, stopping at islands such as...
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Does Big Money Equal Better Science?
The search for the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern has taken years of research and...