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The prison of our beliefs and how to escape it

In The Believing Brain, Michael Shermer argues that "belief-dependent realism" makes it hard for any of us to have an objective view of the world

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Wind power harnesses the energy of galloping

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Wind power harnesses the energy of galloping

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Lost giants of the Pleistocene

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Intel anthropologist: Fieldwork with the silicon tribe

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China's hydropower proponents unfazed by Three Gorges

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The local culture of the global internet

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Technology artist: The beauty and terror of our age

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The climate change threat to nuclear power

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The climate change threat to nuclear power

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Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life

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Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life

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Wind is Japan's strongest alternative to nuclear

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Wind is Japan's strongest alternative to nuclear

Japan's prime minister has announced that his country won't build any new reactors. Is that even an option in such an energy-hungry nation?

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Antiviral drugs stop HIV spreading to sexual partners

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Vaccine protects against monkey version of HIV

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Has our neuro-obsession gone too far?

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Can science fiction still predict the future?

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