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A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality.

A masterclass on what science needs now.

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I design thought experiments to provoke dialogue about who and what we want to become.

It’s lonely to be an exceptional planet.

Why we need to branch out to solve global warming.

Fritz Zwicky decoded how exploding stars fill space with cosmic rays.

The rise and fall of the claustrum epitomizes the hunt for consciousness in the brain.

Avi Loeb has a lot of thoughts about aliens and scientific prejudice.

Maybe energy can be created and destroyed, or maybe the notion doesn’t quite make sense.

Debating the impact of machine-created art.