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My Mom, the Missile Computress
What it was like being among the first women in the US missile program.
The Euclidean Metrics of Trump’s Twitter Account
How online personalities are quantified and compared.
Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me
Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science.
The Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online
A software engineer tackles the distractions of online reading.
How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
A scientific field founded by men is now mostly female.
Our Attitude Toward Aliens Proves We Still Think We’re Special
Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox.
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives.
This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths
Nick Chater argues our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world.
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought
A behavioral scientist unravels one of our most cherished conceptions.