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Writer-editor. Co-author of “Are We Ready for Mars?” tinyurl.com/yr8wb36x. Previously @nautilusmag. Here to take everything seriously 100% of the time.
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Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

In a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from 2007, Larry David and his wife Cheryl and their friends attend a cerem…

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The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood

The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood

Last month, Dan Doctoroff, the C.E.O. of Sidewalk Labs, Google's sibling company under Alphabet, answered a q…

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Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will

It's not that James Williams, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab (mot…

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Brain Damage Saved His Music

Brain Damage Saved His Music

Five years ago, when neurosurgeon Marcelo Galarza saw images from jazz guitarist Pat Martino's cerebral MRI, …

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Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?

Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?

Harvey Whitehouse doesn't like how New Atheists like Richard Dawkins make religion out to be a mere "set of p…

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Your Brain Can't Handle the Moon

Your Brain Can't Handle the Moon

What is this new theory?" the long-retired New York University cognitive psychologist, Lloyd Kaufman, asked m…

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The Case for More Intellectual Humility

The Case for More Intellectual Humility

I can remember, almost a decade ago, when I was convinced out of my "Young-Earth" Creationism. It was almost …

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The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are

The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are

In the 1960s, the English psychologist Peter Wason devised an experiment that would revolutionize his field. …

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The Case Against Lectures

The Case Against Lectures

Getting "lectured" is rarely, if ever, a pleasant experience. You're being told what to do and think, or even…

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Why Women Choose Differently at Work

Why Women Choose Differently at Work

If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone, the world would be a matriarchy."…

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