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The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

There are some truly grand questions that our mortal minds may never be able to answer: How did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is consciousness? Others may be wrestled into submission by the end of this century: Is the universe deterministic? Do we have free will? Of the really big ones, the closest to being

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Três ideias profundamente desestabilizadoras ricochetearam por todo o século XX e se dividiram em três partes desiguais: o átomo, o byte e o gene.

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we still are stymied by the complexity of the biosphere, and, just as with our financial systems, our efforts to intervene have often led to confounding results.