The Neuroscience of Reality
By Anil K. Seth Scientific American On the 10th of April this year Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former rebel leader Riek Machar sat down together […]
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The Message of Measles
By Nick Paumgarten The New Yorker One day in the early sixties, Saul Zucker, a pediatrician and anesthesiologist in the Bronx, was treating the child of a New York assemblyman […]
Spot the Psychopath
By Sally Davies Aeon Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s […]
Justice Unblinded
By Andreas Kuersten Jurist The personification of justice is a blindfolded woman holding a scale and a sword. She cannot see an individual’s wealth, social stature, education, or other personal […]
Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape
By Carl Zimmer The New York Times How generous is an ape? It’s a hard question for scientists to tackle, but the answer could tell us a lot about ourselves. […]
If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
Filling the Gaps in Space Traffic Management
By Mick Gleason & Travis Cottom Politico If you had to manage a large and growing traffic jam, where would you start? On June 18, 2018, the White House released […]
