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The Power of Placebos
|Krista Tippett interviews Erik Vance about his new book, Suggestible You.
The Internet Turns 50
|Fifty years ago at UCLA, the first message was sent over the predecessor to the internet.
The Right Kind of Mess
|Origin-of-life researchers think messy chemical composites may have kick-started life.
The Weirdness Behind Quantum Supremacy
|Superposition, entanglement, qubits, and Google’s big announcement.
Artificial Hype?
|Does AI get overhyped? A NYU psychologist thinks so.
Science Needs Theology
|And vice versa.
Neural Tuning
|How do our brains tune in to the right neural signal?
Is it Science?
|Multiverse ideas challenge the very nature of science.
Reflections on the Pale Blue Dot
|The view from way out there really puts things in perspective.