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The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe
There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.
Spark of Science: Pardis Sabeti
The computational geneticist explains why she chose research over being a doctor.
Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
The surprising message of the statistics of wealth distribution.
Spark of Science: Jon Beckmann
The conservation ecologist discusses the plight of animals in a human-dominated landscape.
The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Aren’t Arbitrary
Bodily experiences inform the way we think.
Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead
The Gaia hypothesis implies that once alien life takes hold, it will flourish.
Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing
It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.