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Existential Comfort Without God
Can natural explanations to life’s big questions be as consoling as religious ones?
Matter | Literature
What Is Life?
An astrobiologist finds the heart of his work in a new novel by Richard Powers.
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Numbers
Why AI Lags Behind the Human Brain in Computational Power
Recent advances have made deep neural networks the leading paradigm of artificial intelligence. One of the great things about deep neural networks is that, given a large number of examples,…
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Ideas
Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners
For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places.…
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Biology
The Hidden Link Between “Genetic Nurture” and Educational Achievement
The phrase “Look down your nose” comes from a time when aristocrats were taller than commoners due to their superior nutrition. European elites would literally look down on their inferiors.…
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Culture
The Problem with Depression Doping
Mental health is not what you’d call an “exact science.” For example, if two highly trained mental health providers meet privately with the same patient, they will agree 90 percent…
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