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This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics

Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.

February 17, 2017

The Man Who Played with Absolute Power

A chat with the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

February 9, 2017

Atheism, the Computer Model

Big data meets history to forecast the rise and fall of religion.

February 9, 2017

The Anatomy of Charisma

What makes a person magnetic and why we should be wary.

February 9, 2017

Raising the American Weakling

There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.

February 2, 2017

Bias in the ER

Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.

February 2, 2017

Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?

Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.

February 2, 2017

What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments

Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.

January 31, 2017

Time Is Contagious

How to control the subjective experience of time.

January 30, 2017

Against Willpower

Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.

January 30, 2017

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.

January 24, 2017

How to Build a Probability Microscope

The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.

January 19, 2017