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How to Learn to Love Your Doppelganger
Hallucinating yourself can be both a symptom and a tool.
James Doty’s Helper’s High
He gave away his last $30 million and felt free—a case study in altruism.
The Disappearing Physicist and His Elusive Particle
He ushered symmetry into theoretical physics, then vanished without a trace.
Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants
Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed.
The Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics
Theoretical physics milks symmetry to power its newest tool.
Math Shall Set You Free—From Envy
How to do divorce, divestment, and death properly.
Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
Infinite patterns that never repeat have moved from fantasy to reality.
Stress Gives You Daughters, Sons Make You Liberal
We affect our children’s gender, and it affects us back.
Are Humans the Greatest Things Created by the Human Hand?
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes to incise wood. It is easy to think of other traits as making us human. We talk, use metaphors, empathize, follow fashions, laugh, play […]
