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1 Against Willpower
Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
BY Carl Erik Fisher -
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 Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?
Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.
BY Matthew Hutson -
4 How to Be Lucky
It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.
BY Chelsea Wald -
5 Raising the American Weakling
There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.
BY Tom Vanderbilt -
6 The Multiple Multiverses May Be One and the Same
If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.
BY Dan Falk
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1 Against Willpower
Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
BY Carl Erik Fisher -
2 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
BY Barbara Oakley -
3 How to Be Lucky
It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.
BY Chelsea Wald -
4 Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?
Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.
BY Matthew Hutson -
5 Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
Despite new biology-like tools, some insist interpretation is impossible.
BY Aaron M. Bornstein -
6 Time Is Contagious
How to control the subjective experience of time.
BY Alan Burdick
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?
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The Tangled History of Big Bang Science
For a theory of the universe as successful as the Big Bang, it may come as a surprise to realize how many complications its promoters had to stumble through. Let’s begin with the unfortunate…
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Science Is Finally Getting Its Close-up
In case you hadn’t noticed, science is enjoying a renaissance on screen. Not science fiction—that’s always been a silver screen staple—but actual scientists doing actual science.…
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Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art
The idea that motion pictures can be works of art has been around since the 1920s, and it hasn’t really been disputed since. It’s easy to see why—cinema shares characteristics with…
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Minority Groups Lose When They Collaborate with Power
Cailin O’Connor—a philosopher, scientist, and mathematician—may not enjoy tense situations, but they fascinate her. Last year, in a Huffington Post article titled “Game Theory and…
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