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1 How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
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2 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
BY Barbara Oakley -
3 A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.
BY James Gleick -
4 Hallucinogen Therapy Is Coming
How shrooms can spring people from fears and destructive habits.
BY Moises Velasquez-Manoff -
5 A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
BY Susie Neilson -
6 Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
The neocortex is argued to be the seat of cognition, but crows don't have one.
BY Grigori Guitchounts
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1 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
BY Barbara Oakley -
2 How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
BY Eric Schwitzgebel -
3 A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
BY Susie Neilson -
4 Hallucinogen Therapy Is Coming
How shrooms can spring people from fears and destructive habits.
BY Moises Velasquez-Manoff -
5 A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.
BY James Gleick -
6 Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
The neocortex is argued to be the seat of cognition, but crows don't have one.
BY Grigori Guitchounts
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
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Ideas
5 Paradoxical Time Travel Stories
Can you imagine a time before we dreamed about time travel? The idea of altering an unpleasant future disclosed by an oracle, and the associated paradoxes of Fate, have been with us for…
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An “Infinitely Rich” Mathematician Turns 100
At the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome, in September of 1973, the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős approached his friend Richard Guy with a request. He said, “Guy, veel you have a…
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Numbers
Today Is “Galactic Tick Day”!
Nearly a quarter of Americans still believe in Ptolemy’s idea that the sun goes around Earth. Yet, every year, these people presumably cheer on December 31 to mark the New Year, another…
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Biology
These Medical Terms Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World…
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