An unbeliever struggles with the question of faith when God is scientific fact and angels routinely visit the earth. Hugo, Locus, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).
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Hell is the Absence of God | Ted Chiang
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This isn’t your grandfather’s science fiction | MetaFilter
A simple time machine undermines the concept of free will, with disastrous consequences.
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Exhalation | Ted Chiang
A non-human scholar relates the dissection of his own brain, and the implications his discoveries hold for his curious clockwork universe. Locus, Hugo Awards (Best Short Story).
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The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate | Ted Chiang
An ancient alchemist introduces a traveling merchant to a mysterious time-traveling gateway. Hugo, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).
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Dancing In The Dark: The Intelligence of Bees
Bees are remarkable among insects. They can count, remember human faces, and communicate through dance routines performed entirely in the dark. But are they intelligent? Even creative? Bee aficionado Stephen Humphrey, along with a hive of leading bee researchers and scientists, investigates the mental lives of bees.
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Edge Conversations: The Argumentative Theory
"Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments. That’s why they call it The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning. So, as they put it, "The evidence reviewed here shows not only that reasoning falls quite short of reliably delivering rational beliefs and rational decisions. It may even be, in a variety of cases, detrimental to rationality. Reasoning can lead to poor outcomes, not because humans are bad at it, but because they systematically strive for arguments that justify their beliefs or their actions. This explains the confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and reason-based choice, among other things."
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V. S. Ramachandran - Tales from the Brain
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, eminent neurologist V. S. Ramachandran offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the uniquely human brain in his new book, The Tell-Tale Brain.
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All In The Mind - 19 March 2011 - Your fabulous bilingual brain!
Many Anglo-Australians lament speaking only one language when they travel overseas. But now we know being bilingual pays big dividends - culturally and cognitively. From bilingual babies to slowing the deterioration of Alzheimer’s, three leading psycholinguists join Natasha Mitchell, ABC Radio National (Australia) to share their striking research. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2011/3164263.htm
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Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolf
Brain science podcast and interview with Maryanne Wolf - how the brain processes language.
Tagged with linguistics language brain cognition reading development science
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Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolf
Brain science podcast and interview with Maryanne Wolf - how the brain processes language.
Tagged with linguistics language brain cognition reading development science
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