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Dark Matter

By Peter DuCharme
May 11, 2015

science and culture for people who love beautiful writing.

While
the cosmological version is the most famous, it is far from the only dark
matter story in science. There are silent neurons, missing fossils, and
nighttime animal migration; death and conception; algorithms both genetic and
man-made. Seeing, it turns out, isn’t the only path to believing.

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