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Sleep and the Teenage Brain
Sleep and the Teenage Brain

How a seemingly simple change can have a profound effect on everything from academic performance to bullying.

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Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer: Buckminster Fuller Revises Scripture with Science
Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer: Buckminster Fuller Revises Scripture with Science

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

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A Brief Visual History of Space and Astronomy in 250 Milestones
A Brief Visual History of Space and Astronomy in 250 Milestones

From the Big Bang to the end of time, or what a pioneering female astronomer has to do with Sagan’s petty nemeses.

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Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life
Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life

“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”

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Beware of Beauty Overload: The Adaptive Eye of the Beholder
Beware of Beauty Overload: The Adaptive Eye of the Beholder

How sensory adaptation is compromising our experience of love.

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Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation
Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation

“Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality.”

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Do Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
Do Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”

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Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do
Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do

What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.

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Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie
Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie

“Few persons contributed more to the general welfare of mankind and to the advancement of science than the modest, self-effacing woman whom the world knew as Mme. Curie.”

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The True Science of Spinach and What the Popeye Mythology Teaches Us about How Error Spreads
The True Science of Spinach and What the Popeye Mythology Teaches Us about How Error Spreads

How a misplaced decimal point created a beloved pop-culture hero.

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