Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | Sep 22, 2025
Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Sep 18, 2025
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2, 2025
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.
Richard Cytowic | Aug 29, 2025
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26, 2025
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22, 2025
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12, 2025
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
Ben Collier | Aug 8, 2025
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.
Tim Lomas | Jul 31, 2025
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen | Jul 22, 2025