Visionary Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky Dies at 51
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Visionary Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky Dies at 51
Oct 11, 2017
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How a Hypothesis Can Be Neither True Nor False
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How a Hypothesis Can Be Neither True Nor False
Apr 9, 2016
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Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them: Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve.
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Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them: Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve.
Sep 3, 2015
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we may all be suffering from the fallacy of availability: thinking that creating intelligence is much easier than it is, because we see examples all around us. In a recent poll, machine intelligence experts p
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Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
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Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
Apr 4, 2017
Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system.
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Q&A: The Fascinating Backstory Of The Periodic Table, Which Is About To Turn 150 Years Old
Los Angeles Times
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Q&A: The Fascinating Backstory Of The Periodic Table, Which Is About To Turn 150 Years Old
Feb 3, 2019
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Nobel Prize Winner James Peebles “Why I Reinvented Space And Time”
All About Space
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Nobel Prize Winner James Peebles “Why I Reinvented Space And Time”
Oct 8, 2020
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The Soviet Union's Scientific Marvels Came From Prisons
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The Soviet Union's Scientific Marvels Came From Prisons
May 5, 2017
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What Particle Physics Can Teach Us About Hope
The Big Issue
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What Particle Physics Can Teach Us About Hope
May 16, 2022
Ernest Rutherford – the ‘father of nuclear physics’ – was a tall, bolshie New Zealander with a voice so loud that he’d disrupt electrical equipment in the lab in Cambridge. His students and staff were famous for concocting physics experiments out of
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If Not Darwin, Who?: An alternative history of the great ideas of science.
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If Not Darwin, Who?: An alternative history of the great ideas of science.
Dec 15, 2016
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin? In one view, nothing much would change—the discoveries they made and theories they devised would have materialized anyway sooner or later. That’s the odd thing abo
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Critical Thinker
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Critical Thinker
Apr 16, 2023
ANAXIMANDER AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE, by Carlo Rovelli (Allen Lane, $40) Most scientists know what science is until someone asks them to define it, and then they don’t. It’s something to do with precision and accuracy, so you’d think there was a pre
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Quark Of Habit
The American Scholar
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Quark Of Habit
Dec 1, 2022
A round 400 BC, the Greek philosopher Democritus proffered the idea that all matter was composed of indivisible, featureless constituents. He described them using the Greek word for “uncuttable”: atomos. Two thousand years later, scientists found tha
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On My Radar: Carlo Rovelli’s Cultural Highlights
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On My Radar: Carlo Rovelli’s Cultural Highlights
Oct 28, 2023
Born in Verona, Italy, in 1956, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli is known for his writing on the philosophy of science. His books include the bestselling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time and Helgoland and have been translated into
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To Infinity And (way) Beyond
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To Infinity And (way) Beyond
May 31, 2019
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Herbert Spencer’s Principle of Equal Freedom: Is It Well Grounded?
The Independent Review
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Herbert Spencer’s Principle of Equal Freedom: Is It Well Grounded?
Sep 1, 2020
During the mid-to late nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer was the most widely read philosopher in the world. A large part of his appeal was owing to his ambition of providing a complete and comprehensive account of human reality based on scientific
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This Essentially Meaningless Conflict
Creative Nonfiction
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This Essentially Meaningless Conflict
Sep 22, 2017
MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S accomplishments are impressive by any standard: she has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal, among other honors. But perhaps a better measure o
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Professor Poeschl and the Electric Lightning Polymath
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Professor Poeschl and the Electric Lightning Polymath
Oct 25, 2021
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Out Of Sight
New Zealand Listener
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Out Of Sight
May 8, 2022
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Galileo And The Telescope
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Galileo And The Telescope
May 3, 2021
If you were to ever find yourself strolling through the Mueseo Galileo in the city of Florence, Italy, you would likely chance upon a rather ordinary object. At least, that’s what it looks like at first glance. Do give it a second peek, as this relic
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Mapping The Mystical Past
Fortean Times
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Mapping The Mystical Past
Nov 3, 2022
Paul Devereux Daily Grail Publishing 2022 Pb, 294pp, £14.99, ISBN 9780645209419 One of the advantages of older age is that it provides a ready perspective on the development of a subject – in this case the importance of certain places to our ancient
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E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way
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E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way
Jan 5, 2022
I first met Edward O. Wilson in 1971 when I was a student in an ecology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Wilson, a famous Harvard professor, was sitting in on the student project reports. After I reported my ex
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U.S. Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Win Abel Prize, 'Math's Nobel'
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U.S. Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Win Abel Prize, 'Math's Nobel'
Mar 19, 2019
"I find that I am bored with anything I understand," Karen Uhlenbeck once said. That sentiment is part of why she won what many call the Nobel of mathematics Tuesday.
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No Easy Way To Mastery
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No Easy Way To Mastery
May 22, 2022
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What Is a Beautiful Experiment?
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What Is a Beautiful Experiment?
Aug 11, 2023
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She Got Famous On YouTube. Now It Helps Fund Her Research In Quantum Gravity
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She Got Famous On YouTube. Now It Helps Fund Her Research In Quantum Gravity
Sep 23, 2023
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The Life Of A Brilliant Physicist
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The Life Of A Brilliant Physicist
Nov 4, 2021
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Do You Know These Scientific Pioneers?
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Do You Know These Scientific Pioneers?
Nov 25, 2020
It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”; it contains all the names you’d find on most popular lists of scientific geniuses: Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, Gauss, Boh
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Why Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics: Meet the philosopher who revived anti-realism.
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Why Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics: Meet the philosopher who revived anti-realism.
Sep 8, 2016
Philosophers of science are not known for agreeing with each other—contrariness is part of the job description. But for thousands of years, from Aristotle to Thomas Kuhn, those who study what science is have roughly categorized themselves into two ba
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Lessons For A Young Scientist
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Lessons For A Young Scientist
Jan 9, 2020
I sometimes worry that many who would enjoy a scientific career are put off by a narrow and outdated conception of what’s involved. The word “scientist” still conjures up an unworldly image of an Einstein lookalike (male and elderly) or else a youthf
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Lessons For A Young Scientist
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Lessons For A Young Scientist
Jan 12, 2022
I sometimes worry that many who would enjoy a scientific career are put off by a narrow and outdated conception of what’s involved. The word “scientist” still conjures up an unworldly image of an Einstein lookalike (male and elderly) or else a youthf
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Unleash Your Inner Einstein
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Unleash Your Inner Einstein
Nov 25, 2021
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