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The Science of Star Wars Weaponry

Just how realistic are lightsabers, blasters, and ion cannons?

November 30, 2017

The Fish That Took a Century to Name

The unlikely story of Alfred Russel Wallace’s pike.

November 30, 2017

The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions

Are you judging your decisions on their outcomes?

November 30, 2017

The Overlooked Link Between Two of This Year’s Nobel Prizes

To better understand the molecules described by the latest prize in medicine, we will need the technique recognized by the latest prize in chemistry.

November 30, 2017

Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition

The chief technology officer of one of the world’s largest hedge funds talks data.

November 27, 2017

Actually, There Is a Time Like the Present

Think there’s no time like the present? Modern physics begs to differ.

November 27, 2017

Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem

Answers to questions and questions that cannot be answered.

November 27, 2017

A Modest Proposal for Thanksgiving

Or, For Preventing the Annual Repast from Being a Burden on the Earth, and for Making It Beneficial to the Publick.*

November 22, 2017