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Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

November 17, 2015

Why We’re Patriotic

Whether it’s our country or our football team, we need to belong.

November 12, 2015

The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species

Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.

November 12, 2015

Through Fortitude or Stupidity, Lee Berger Is Rewriting Human History

The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.

November 12, 2015

Identity Is an Inside Joke

Why you laugh with your friends.

November 12, 2015

Science Is Proving That Tragic Curses Are Real

Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.

November 12, 2015

Is Farmed Salmon Really Salmon?

The staple fish is having an identity crisis.

November 12, 2015

How I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now

Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring.

November 10, 2015

How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution

Burgers and fries have nearly killed our ancestral microbiome.

November 10, 2015