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"This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain -- the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is...
"Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues,...
Foundational Issues
Streaming Video - 2017
Six renowned physicists (Roger Penrose, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert, Scott Tremaine and Nobel Laureates David Politzer and Tony Leggett) describe a spectrum of outstanding issues in current theoretical physics, from foundations of quantum...
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite...
Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave paintings, stunning as they are, form just a part a...