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3 This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics
Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.
BY Jordana Cepelewicz -
4 Bias in the ER
Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.
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Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.
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Family Physics” may be the best episode of Public Radio’s long running show, This American Life. Its premise was simple. Import key concepts from the realms of quantum mechanics and…
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It can seem like a Catch-22 is baked into the practice of meditation. It’s meant, among other things, to foster patience—but meditation also seems to require considerable patience to…
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Ideas 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers would know precisely what it means. But what does it actually…
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