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Featured
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Famous Brain Scientist Loses His Mind
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What My Students Worry About
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A Wild Mystic
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Mystical Schtick
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What Good Is “Self-Knowledge”?
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Henry James, The Ambassadors and the Dithering Hero
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Being a Science Critic When Science Is Imperiled
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Mysticism Under Trump
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Scientific American and the Anti-Woke Bros
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How Friends Cope
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Collaboration
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The “Scandal” Behind the Biggest Study of Antidepressants Ever
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Anthropologist Demolishes Claim That War Is in Our Genes
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Resistance
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Why Chomsky Called Trump and Republicans “Criminally Insane”
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How I Cope
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Self-Gaslighting
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Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Final Theory
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The End of Insight
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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?