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The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness

“To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities, and not just any old reality but a better one.”

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A Brief Visual History of Robots in a Matrix of Creepiness & Intelligence

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

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What Is Reality? A BBC Horizon Documentary

What walking through walls has to do with tropical fruit and the search for the God particle.

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh

“It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most.”

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The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous

“The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.”

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Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

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HyperCities: Every Past is a Place

What 17th-century Manhattan has to do with Peru’s grid and the Renaissance in Berlin.

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Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the Moon Is Leaving Us

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The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao

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What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange and Wondrous Science of Seeing with Sound

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Search results for “time travel”

“To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities, and not just any old reality but a better one.”

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

What walking through walls has to do with tropical fruit and the search for the God particle.

“It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most.”

“The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.”

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

What 17th-century Manhattan has to do with Peru’s grid and the Renaissance in Berlin.

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