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To try to understand what it might be like to be blind, think about how it “looks” behind your head.

We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

A child asks, and war answers.

“I did not have to believe anything irrational about the universe.”

How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.

From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics.

How is it possible to get something from nothing?

The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.

I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.

Lord Martin Rees tells us about black holes and existential risks.

The success of the Mormon religion is a study in social adaptation.