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Costa Rica and the Problem of Beauty
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My Encounter with String Theorist and Naïve Realist Edward Witten
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What It Is
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Jimmy Carter’s Thoughts on the End of War
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Was Wittgenstein a Mystic?
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A Science Writer’s Winter Solstice
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Decorating a Tree with Skye: A Christmas Story
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The Backstory
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The Particle in a Box
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Is the Omega Point Ironic Science?
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Is David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” Really, Like, Great?
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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader
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The Election and the Problem of Evil
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Drawing Pretty Pictures in Troubled Times
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How Quantum Mechanics Helped Me Escape the Shitshow
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More Medicine Does Not Mean Better Health
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Beyond Virility Signaling: How Moms Made Us
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Psychiatry Is Broken. Can It Fix Itself?
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The Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Has Failed. What Are Alternatives?
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The Beyond-Spacetime Meme
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The Metaphysical Meaning of Performance Anxiety
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The Consciousness Panel
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Is God a Strange Loop?
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Moby Dick and Hawking’s “Ultimate Theory”
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On Skipping Stones and Getting Old
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Solipsism, Quantum Mechanics and Online Dating
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Should I Wear a Mask in Class This Fall?
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Math, God and the Problem of Evil
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Dumpster Diving: Why I Draw Trash Cans
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What’s the Point of Poetic, “Gee-Whiz” Science Writing?