Identity
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Into the Uncanny Valley
November 16, 2009
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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Perfect Strangers
November 16, 2009
The eerie emotional response brought on by near-duplicates of our selves raises interesting questions about perception and expectations.
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Uncovering Ardi
October 05, 2009
Anthropologist John Hawks explains why Ardi, the oldest known skeleton of a human-like primate, matters so much to the science of human origins.
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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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Are We Beyond the Two Cultures?
May 07, 2009
Seed celebrates the questions C.P. Snow raised 50 years ago by asking: Where are we now?
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To Be a Baby
May 05, 2009
Alison Gopnik describes new experiments in developmental psychology that show everything we think we know about babies is wrong.
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The Synesthesia Census
April 16, 2009
Author and synesthesia expert David Eagleman on subjective realities, the genes behind mixed sensory experiences, and taking stock of the condition that everyone wants.
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I Am a Rat and So Are You
April 06, 2009
Humans and the domesticated lab rat share DNA, a history, and increasingly, their fates.
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The Amazing Race
February 25, 2009
The Linguists depicts an around-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
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Needham’s Grand Question
December 15, 2008
As China reemerges on the science frontier, Simon Winchester offers a vivid account of one man's mission to illuminate its innovative past.
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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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Fear Itself
November 29, 2005
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Childhood Neglect Leaves Biological Mark
November 21, 2005
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New and Notable: 11/13 - 11/18
November 18, 2005
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
