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Physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality.
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30 of 227The Physicist Who Says Spacetime Has No Points
This is an episode about “relationality” and what spacetime is made of.
Recursion into madness
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?
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Minimum temperatures in India are rising faster than maximum temperatures
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XKDR Newsletter - Issue 53
COVID income shocks • Renewable energy measurement• Karnataka’s subsidy delivery • Firm level GST • Foreign investment stall • Public finance in land policy • Big Ideas episodes, events & more
The Worst Case Is Still on the Table
Why removing RCP8.5 from the National Climate Assessment would be a serious mistake
Regional variations in seasonal temperatures
India is warming, but the magnitude of this warming varies widely by season and geography. Winter sees the most uniform warming across the country, while the monsoon shows the clearest evidence of sustained long-term warming.
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The First
For a brief period in the 6th century there was among the splinter sects of Khivan Nestorians a cult with a peculiar doctrine.
Fluorescent lamps (don’t) have ears
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Journal of Negative Results
The Experience Is Real. But Is God?
On prayer, attention, and the space between real and not real…
Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH
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Is India's workforce feminising?
The number of women in India's workforce has grown after a period of decline. But does this increase translate into better, and better-paying jobs? We examine the sectors of the economy that are getting feminised.
More pre-teens in India have used the internet than people in their 40s
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What we can and cannot say about climate change and the Nepal disaster
Formal attribution is premature, but the collapse happened on a rapidly warming mountain in a valley losing its ice
Weight, wages and wayfinding
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Every Guest Who’s Been on Theories of Everything
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Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH
This is Part 2 of the previous lecture with Tim Maudlin (which went obscenely viral).
The will of the state
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Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.
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Manufacturing has played a shrinking role in most industrialised states in India
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Know your paradoxes
Your life might depend on it.
POET OF SMOKE
A leaf bound into a copy of the Chronica Gentis Scotorum relates the following story, attributed to Donnchad mac Gilla Críst, a minor toísech of the Atholl highlands.
Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.
The unsettling cases that led this scientist to find ways of testing consciousness…
Prisoners of our conscience
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Peter Godfrey-Smith: This Scientist Found Earth’s “Alien” Minds
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Is this El Niño a glimpse of a future, hotter Earth?
There are important differences between long-term global warming and El Niño warming
A higher education is associated with a significant wage premium in India
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The Pyramid of Sorrows
The conquistadors wrote that Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica Empire, was the crowning glory of the earth.