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The Universe Began With a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang
The cosmological constant and the creation of the universe.
What We Get Wrong About Lyme Disease
The stories we tell about the epidemic get things backward.
Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality?
A conversation with this month’s Ingenious, Venkat Venkatasubramanian.
Why Curiosity Can Be Both Painful and Pleasurable
The emerging neurology of one of our most human characteristics.
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.
The Perils of Letting Machines into the Hive Mind
We think we know more than we do—including how machines will behave.
