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1 The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice
Are we happier with few or many choices? One subject settles the debate—dating.
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2 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
BY Barbara Oakley -
3 How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat
The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable.
BY David Kaiser -
4 The Genius of Learning
MacArthur Fellow Danielle Bassett says learning works best when you don’t overthink it.
BY Lauren R. Weinstein -
5 A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.
BY James Gleick -
6 How an Elephant Loses Its Tusks
Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective pressure of poaching.
BY Meghan Bartels
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1 How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat
The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable.
BY David Kaiser -
2 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
BY Barbara Oakley -
3 The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice
Are we happier with few or many choices? One subject settles the debate—dating.
BY Elizabeth Svoboda -
4 A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.
BY James Gleick -
5 Alzheimer’s Early Tell
The language of authors who suffered from dementia has a story for the rest of us.
BY Adrienne Day -
6 The Parallel Universes of a Woman in Science
In physics and in life, choice and possibility play against each other.
BY Kate Marvel
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?
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Culture
Don’t Fall Prey to Selection Bias in Your Career Choice
It’s your last year of college and you’re trying to answer the dreaded question of what comes next. Whether your major once seemed incredibly broad or totally specialized, you’ve…
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There May Be Two Trillion Other Galaxies
In 1939, the year Edwin Hubble won the Benjamin Franklin award for his studies of “extra-galactic nebulae,” he paid a visit to an ailing friend. Depressed and interred at Las Encinas…
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Biology
Is Obesity Thrifty or Drifty?
Over 72 million Americans are obese—a condition associated with a plethora of negative health outcomes including diabetes, cancer, and heart problems. But Americans’ eating habits aren’t…
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Biology
You Can’t Upload Your “Self” Into Virtual Reality
In his 2003 book, Being No One, Thomas Metzinger contends there is no such thing as a “self.” Rather, the self is a kind of transparent information-processing system. “You don’t…
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Spark of Science
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Sean B. Carroll
Vice President for Science Education,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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