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Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives.
This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths
Nick Chater argues our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world.
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought
A behavioral scientist unravels one of our most cherished conceptions.
Why Nature Prefers Couples, Even for Yeast
Some species have the equivalent of many more than two sexes, but most do not. A new model suggests the reason depends on how often they mate.
Do Religious People Really Have a Problem with Evolution?
My journey into the middle ground of the science-religion culture war.
A Short Guide to Hard Problems
What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape.
