Homo Prospectus
Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister and Chandra Sripada
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Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially...
Humanity in a Creative Universe
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In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great...
Transformative Experience
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As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect...
An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL)
Ad Hoc Committee to Assess the Science Proposed for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Labor
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According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and...
Birth, Evolution and Death of Stars
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It has been known for a long time that stars are similar to our Sun. But it was only in 1810 that...
Introduction to Combinatorics
Walter D. Wallis and John C. George
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What Is Combinatorics Anyway? Broadly speaking, combinatorics is the branch of mathematics dealing...
Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time
Paul Upchurch, Alistair J. McGowan and Claire S. C. Slater
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Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary...
Superconductivity: A New Approach Based on the Bethe-Salpeter Equation in the Mean-Field Approximation
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Given the Debye temperature of an elemental superconductor (SC) and its Tc, BCS theory enables one...
The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe
Frank Wilczek and Clifford V. Johnson
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Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science...
Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways
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The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us Rivers are essential to...