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Science And The Agony Of Ignorance
Astrophysicist Adam Frank reflects on the fact that while many of his questions for the universe can be answered, some are beyond him now — and may remain so for the rest of his life.
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The Girl Who Smelled Pink
A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia. By Kristen Weir.
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This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel
A rare condition causes Joel Salinas to experience other people's emotions and sensations. Is mirror-touch synesthesia a superpower or a curse?
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My Letter From Oliver Sacks
Migraines, 3D magic, and an unlikely correspondence from one “incredibly stereoscopic person” to another. By David Friedman.
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The First Light of Trinity
Seventy years ago, the flash of a nuclear bomb illuminated the skies over Alamogordo, New Mexico. What did it look like? By Alex Wellerstein.
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What Color Is This Song?
Test your inner synesthesia. By Stephen E. Palmer.
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Time’s Taboos: Dirty Thoughts on Systems, Syntropy, and Psi
Classical physics, with its totally determinative, forward-in-time, billiard-ball causation, requires sweeping anomalies like psi under the rug, not to mention resigning ourselves to an absence of higher meaning and direction in the universe. Even the local islands of order allowed within the framework of dynamical systems theory... By Eric Wargo.
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That Physicist in Omaha Is Still Working on a Warp Drive in His Garage
And he’s filed for a patent. By Doug Bierend.
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10 Hypothetical Forms Of Life
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some have been accused of harboring a sense of “carbon chauvinism,” expecting other life-forms in the universe to be made of the same biochemical building blocks as we are and tailoring our searches accordingly. Here are 10 examples of biological and nonbiological systems that stretch the definition of “life.”
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SL-1: Murder by Nuclear Reactor
There have been three nuclear power plant meltdowns that have captured worldwide attention and left the general public with the opinion that nuclear power is too dangerous to rely upon...
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The strange phenomenon of musical ‘skin orgasms’
Some people enjoy music so much that the sensations can be compared to sex. How does a good song move the body and mind in this way, asks David Robson.
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Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank
Just when you crave one more sensual hit, the void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind. By M. M. Owen.
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The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same” - Stendhal. Sheep aren’t stupid. They’re almost as smart as pigs, and at about the same level as cattle. Sure, they won’t be writing any heartbreaking novels of staggering genius or winning on Jeopardy anytime soon...
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What are the limits of human vision?
From spotting galaxies millions of light years away to perceiving invisible colours, Adam Hadhazy explains why your eyes can do incredible things. By Adam Hadhazy.
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Rationalists are Harshing My Empiricist Mellow
Anomalistics is in desperate need of a philosophy that really ties the room together. Call it “anomalism”, or “anomaloofness”, or El Philisophico Anomalistico if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. Maybe you’re into strange phenomena, maybe you’re not, but make no mistake, those strange phenomena abide, regardless of whether you feel they have any significance in your life...
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A Lazarus beside Me: An Encounter with Yeats
Avies Platt’s account of her meeting with Yeats was recently discovered by Peter Scupham in a carrier bag of diary entries and other bits and bobs. She died in 1976. ‘M.M.’ has not been identified.
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What It’s Like to Have Severe Sleep Paralysis
He thought he was being personally haunted by a ghost. By Melissa Dahl.
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The Magical Battle of Britain
It’s a strange footnote of history. Something happened in World War II that doesn’t really make any sense, and nobody really seems to give a lot of thought as to why it happened outside of military academies. Germany never invaded Britain. It seems crazy... By Sable Aradia.
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A dream-traveller’s guide to the sleeping mind
Almost 100 years ago, an English aristocrat found the secrets of dream control. Her adventures explored the limits of consciousness – which modern science has only now rediscovered. By David Robson.
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The most electric place on Earth
At one lake in Venezuela, lightning flashes 28 times a minute. By Ella Davies.
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