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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

Maggie Koerth-Baker in the New York Times: In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified and... Continue reading

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The Moral Status of Rocks

Justin E. H. Smith in his blog: A student in rural Iceland, of sheep-farming stock, had her guard down, or didn't yet have a guard. She didn't know how to talk to foreigners, or perhaps felt there was something she... Continue reading

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The need for critical science journalism

Jalees Rehman in The Guardian: The bulk of contemporary science journalism falls under the category of "infotainment". This expression describes science writing that informs a non-specialist target audience about new scientific discoveries in an entertaining fashion. The "informing" typically consists... Continue reading

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The stories of two Palestinian villages: From Al-Araqib to Susiya

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Why race as a biological construct matters

Razib Khan in Gene Expression: My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don’t have that much time, and the core readership here is probably not going to get... Continue reading

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Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers

Erica Klarreich in Wired: On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at 3quarksdaily

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Is the Brain No Different From a Light Switch? The Uncomfortable Ideas of the Philosopher Daniel Dennett

Jonathan Weiner in The Daily Beast: For Daniel Dennett, philosophers are like blacksmiths: they make their own tools as they go along. Unlike carpenters, who have to buy their drills and saws at Sears, blacksmiths can use their own hammers,... Continue reading

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No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

No Fire Zone - Trailer from Zoe Sale on Vimeo. [Thanks to Wolf Böwig.] Continue reading

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Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith'

Mohsin Hamid in The Guardian: In 2007, six years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, I was travelling through Europe and North America. I had just published a novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and as I travelled I was... Continue reading

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Aftermath: Pakistan Elections 2013

by Omar Ali The May 11th elections in Pakistan represented the first time that a civilian regime completed its term in office and held elections in which power will be transferred democratically to a new civilian regime. In a country... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at 3quarksdaily

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Digging Up Bones or, The Labyrinths beneath Our Feet

by Tom Jacobs There is a story that I want to tell you. It's about a man who lives alone at the edge of town. In a small house without much to recommend it. He finds that there is little... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at 3quarksdaily

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New Air In A Fast City

by Mara Jebsen Should poetry be whispered in the dark? Should it be a communion with the dead, transacted silently through the media of paper and lamplight? Ought it to roll out of the whale-mouths of men on stages (maybe... Continue reading

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El Anatsui. Earth's Skin, 2007. Hanging made of aluminium bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, Nigeria. More here and here. Continue reading

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NORTH KOREA’S NERVE WAR

by James McGirk The Moranbong Band is best imagined as a North Korean version of Celtic Woman: an all-female ensemble band swaddled in fetching formalwear, blasting highly produced, energetic nationalist kitsch. Of course, no matter how much vigorous fiddling Chloe,... Continue reading

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POETRY IN TRANSLATION: CORDOBA

(Written in 1932 on Spanish soil, mainly in the Mosque of Cordoba) BY MOHAMMED IQBAL I Chain of day and night Fashioner of events Basis of life and death Two tone silken thread Fiber of attributes Pitch of prospects Chain... Continue reading

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The Bystander Effect in Medical Care. Why Do I Have So Many Doctors Not Taking Care of Me?

by Carol A Westbrook In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine1, Drs. Stavert and Lott used the tem, "The Bystander Effect," to describe a new health care phenomenon, in which multiple physicians participate in the care... Continue reading

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Obama must Make Fighting Climate Change National Project, or Die the death of a thousand Scandals

Juan Cole in Informed Comment: President Obama, like George H. W. Bush, has a problem with the ‘vision thing.’ And that is the reason for which he is being dogged by critics and ‘scandals.’ He presides over a huge bureaucracy... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at 3quarksdaily

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Stephen Wolfram: Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz

Stephen Wolfram in his blog: I have always found Leibniz a somewhat confusing figure. He did many seemingly disparate and unrelated things—in philosophy, mathematics, theology, law, physics, history, and more. And he described what he was doing in what seem... Continue reading

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Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie

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The Ayatollah's Game Plan

Mohsen Milani in Foreign Affairs: In normal presidential elections, it is only the candidates and their platforms that matter. Not so in Iran. There, the key player in the upcoming presidential elections is the septuagenarian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,... Continue reading

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The First New Atheist? Kierkegaard

Our own Morgan Meis in The Smart Set: Søren Kierkegaard was born in Denmark on May 5, 1813. He was a difficult and troublesome boy. He quarreled with his father and lived a flippant and self-indulgent life as a young... Continue reading

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KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels

Ahmed Aldabba in the Christian Science Monitor: For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. This week, he got his finger lickin' fix at home in the Gaza Strip after... Continue reading

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How do Finnish kids excel without rote learning and standardized testing?

Erin Millar in The Globe and Mail: One September morning in 2003, a group of engineers gathered for a marathon brainstorming session at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. Their intent was ambitious; they wanted to dream up a... Continue reading

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Lennon's "Imagine" and McCartney/Wings' "Band on the Run" overlaid: One way of reuniting (some of) the Beatles

For my sister Sughra, a fan of both: Continue reading

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The Superhero Factory

Paul Morton skips through Sean Howe's history of Marvel comics at The Millions: At some point, at 4, at 8 or 25, every child learns he will not become a superhero. It won’t be his first disillusionment. He will meet... Continue reading

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