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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Open Software Means Kinder Science
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Don’t Panic about AI
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Rethinking the Infamous Milgram Experiment in Authoritarian Times
It’s usually cited as showing that people will follow dubious orders under social pressure—but a more important lesson may be that some people will refuse
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The Runaway Train of Cognitive Enhancement
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