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Arizona State University physicist Lawrence Krauss states: “It’s not controversial at all. There’s no scientific evidence for extra-sensory perception.
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
We are our own auditors.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Wiener was as worldly as Shannon was reticent. He was well traveled and polyglot, ambitious and socially aware; he took science personally and passionately. His expression of the second law of thermodynamics, for example, was a cry of the heart: We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Gresham’s Law can explain why the median consumer reads low-quality information online. On the Internet, low-quality content drives out high-quality content, as the most wide-read articles are polarizing and emotionally jarring. First, they distort the truth by eliminating nuance and adding emotional charge to important topics. If you check almost
... See moreDavid Perell • The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
Even if the inflaton started out with the bare minimum level of jitters allowed for by the uncertainty principle, a burst of inflationary expansion would transform these into macroscopic wobbles, superimposing on the overall smoothness of the expanding universe a wavy pattern of variations in the field, much like ripples on the surface of an otherw
... See moreThomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
On the Moral Nature of the Universe (Theology and the Sciences): Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics
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a remarkable chain of events the triangle of observations, theorizing, and anthropic reasoning on λ—each one revolutionary in its own right—came together in the early 2000s. It is this confluence of ideas that led to anthropic multiverse cosmology,