Trying to explain the concept of an awards ceremony to anyone under the age of 25 is like trying to explain string theory. Or ...

I was lying down in an east London basement with a knife in my right hand. A woman I’d never met before stood over me, shouting: “Cut!”. Still yelling, the woman made a cutting motion in the air with ...

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A simple model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator predicts the emergence of self-organized institutions that manage limited resources such as fisheries or irrigation water. This model ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

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