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The Logic of Immunity
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Our Genes
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Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
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A Brief History of Intelligence
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The Beauty of Falling
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March 30, 2024
Science V. Story
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Sharing Our Science
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Rivals
In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the …
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Mapping the Darkness
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March 6, 2024
The Elephant and the Blind
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February 23, 2024
The Brain in Motion
C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) sh…
February 13, 2024
Science Communication in a Crisis
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February 10, 2024
Biological Essentialism
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February 4, 2024
How the Hypothesis Means
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January 31, 2024
Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise
Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, an…
January 26, 2024
The Naked Neanderthal
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pe…
January 20, 2024
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
We are all familiar with the “march of progress” image - the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressi…
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A Mind for Language
How does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is learned? How do these factors interact? The questions s…
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Free to Investigate
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