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George Musser

George Musser is an award-winning science writer and the author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. Follow him at @gmusser@mastodon.social, @gmusser.bsky.social, and @georgemusserjr@threads.net.

If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him

Should an alien species resist, we will have discovered life.

October 3, 2024

Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?

The qualities of our experience seem impossible to describe scientifically, but maybe we’re just not thinking about them right.

October 20, 2023

The Biologist Blowing Our Minds

Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.

June 28, 2023

Reality Is Your Brain’s Best Guess

Your expectations form the way you experience the world.

June 20, 2023

Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions

A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.

October 13, 2021

I Built My Own Artificial Neural Network

With a little help from one of the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.

September 29, 2020

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and nature are one.

February 26, 2020

What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?

Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

January 22, 2020

A Hologram Shows How Space Could Pop Into Existence

The holographic principle—with a real hologram.

September 4, 2019

Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will

You make choices even if your atoms don’t.

May 13, 2019

How the Universe Remembers Information

A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.

February 25, 2019