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Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life
Refute your friends and family, never be satisfied. Philosopher Agnes Callard on life lessons from Socrates. -
Bringing Mars Rocks to Earth
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The Incredible Conundrum of Life’s Origin
How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma -
How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar
Making a Shazam for conservationists -
Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence
The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame
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The Trouble with the Swamp
Wetlands in film are overwhelmingly associated with discomfort, misery, and death
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These Physicists Want to Ditch Dark Energy
The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake
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You Are What Your Ancestors Didn’t Eat
The impact of famine may be written in the bodies of future generations
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Breaking a Cycle of Apocalypse
John Larison’s new novel The Ancients suggests some societies are built for cataclysm
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The Genius of Benjamin Franklin
Richard Munson’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Ingenious, his biography of Franklin, the scientist. -
How to Read a Tsunami
Insights from a geophysicist. -
Science from the Tsunami
Illustrating what scientists have learned from the disaster 20 years ago. -
Making Friends with Your Past and Future Selves
It’s what psychologists call self-continuity, and can improve your health and well-being. -
The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe
Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions.
