📑Essay/Medicine
Learning to not-know
From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor's day. They should learn to embrace it
Zoe Cunniffe
📑Video/Complexity
A radical reimagining of physics puts information at its centre
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📑Essay/Politics and government
Dreams of a Maoist India
India's Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases
Rahul Pandita
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📑Essay/Sleep and dreams
What sleep is
It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can't be explained by our need for rest
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📑Essay/Neurodiversity
The puzzle of the 'idiot savant'
The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories
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📑Essay/Metaphysics
From nothing, everything
The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science
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📑Essay/Knowledge
Holes in the web
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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