Happiness
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Opera in the Fifth Dimension
August 10, 2009
In Hypermusic Prologue, physicist Lisa Randall re-imagines her extradimensional theories of the universe as opera.
happiness, irrationality, public perception, space, theory, truth
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Love’s Labors and Costs
May 15, 2009
"Spent" looks at why, when scientific research shows that more stuff doesn’t lead to more happiness, humans are driven to endlessly acquire.
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The Achilles’ Heel of Aging
April 20, 2009
Understanding the biological basis of senescence may allow us to delay or prevent the degenerative declines long accepted as an inevitable part of getting older.
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After the Fall
April 02, 2009
Alexis Rockman’s latest exhibit portrays a psychedelic, posthuman natural world where our failings horrify but ultimately inspire us.
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Thinking Meta
February 16, 2009
Good judgment is more than a matter of “gut feeling” — it’s the willingness to reflect on the decision-making process itself.
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The Awe of Natural History Collections
February 12, 2009
Visiting the hidden side of natural history museums, where the vast collections of scientific specimens are kept.
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The True 21st Century Begins
January 29, 2009
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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The Romance of Objects
January 09, 2009
What are the roles of objects in the development of young minds and in the creative lives of scientists?
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A Still Curious Case
December 24, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grapples with age-old fears of death and aging, physiological processes that modern science is only beginning to understand.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
November 12, 2008
Werner Herzog goes to Antarctica in his ultimately optimistic documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
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Agnostic Machinery
October 29, 2008
Bill Maher's film Religulous hoped to use scientists to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the scientists had a different idea.
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What Is Solastalgia?
July 31, 2008
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The Listener
October 29, 2007
As Oliver Sacks observes the mind through music, his belief in a science of empathy takes on new dimension.
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The Reinvention of the Self
February 23, 2006
Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and stress may not just be symptoms of society, but bound to our anatomy.
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Girls Gone Wild ... for Monkeys
October 14, 2005
What you are into may surprise you.
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Blogs: A New Force in Physics?
October 01, 2005
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
