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How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust
My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.
The Case Against Lectures
Depending on the speaker, lectures can be a joy, but, the efficacy of the lecture, as a teaching method, is in doubt.
Quantum Correlations Reverse Thermodynamic Arrow of Time
A recent experiment shows how quantum mechanics can make heat flow from a cold body to a hot one, an apparent (though not real) violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.
How the Fencing Reflex Connects Life and Death
Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out.
The Self Is Other People
Our very sense of who we are is intertwined with what we see when we see other people look at us.
