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The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are

More than 90 percent of people err on this test. Will you?

May 22, 2015

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.

Angst and the Empty Set

We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

July 31, 2014

A Complicated Question

A child asks, and war answers.

July 31, 2014

An Atheist’s Guide to Spirituality

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

July 31, 2014

Ingenious: Alan Lightman

The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.

July 31, 2014

My Own Personal Nothingness

From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics.

July 31, 2014

Flashback: Human Uniqueness

Shining a light on the spark that separates man from beast.

March 4, 2014

Capturing the “Ruin Porn” of Berlin

Layers of history beckon with imperfect memories.

November 12, 2013