Nick Hilden

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    Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs

    Justin Smith-Ruiu takes a philosophical and first-person look at psychedelics

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    Love in the Time of Climate Change

    Megha Majumdar’s acclaimed novel A Guardian and a Thief explores a near-future where scarcity forces hard choices

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    Can Embracing the Unknown Save Us From Dystopia?

    An interview with Daniel Wilson, author of shamanic techno-thriller Hole in the Sky

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    Scientists Are People, Too

    Can humanizing scientists help win back public trust?

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    The Evolution of … Everything

    From cells to cellphones, trial and error shapes it all

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    The Philosophy of Tyranny

    What a formative period in Plato’s life tells us about US politics today

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    AI Has Already Run Us Over the Cliff

    Cognitive neuroscientist Chris Summerfield argues that we don’t understand the technology we’re so eager to deploy

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    The Importance of Muscle

    In his new book, Michael Joseph Gross explores how the notion of strength has changed since Homer

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    Life in an Atmospheric Zoo

    Journalist Carl Zimmer tells the story of the science of aerobiology

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    Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence

    The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame