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It is easier to say what freedom of speech isn’t than to say what it is. The…
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What Is Intelligence?
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Marcelo Gleiser rang the church bell to marshal us inside. The clangor cut…
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Will Trump’s Immigration Policies Hurt US Nobel Chances?
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Growing up, Omar Yaghi shared a room with his siblings—and some cattle—in…
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Was Jesus a Shaman?
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Manvir Singh isn’t your typical academic anthropologist. He writes regularly…
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Why I Became a Birdwatcher
The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead. A raven. Even seeing it on the side of the mountain road in Crete was a shock: a large, dark splayed body the size of a small dog. I stopped the car and got out, not quite certain if I would find…
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When Plato Flirted with Tyranny
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Few figures loom larger over Western culture than Plato, whose The Republic has…
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Huge Study Finds People Want to be Good
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An old philosophical chestnut concerns the question of what motivates acts of…
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The Past Is a Ghost and the Future a Fantasy
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It’s strange how your brain can fool you—and how something small, some…
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Your Mind is Part of the Ecosystem–Nautilus
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There is a really deep reason why, when you examine things from an unusual (to…
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