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Anthropology

Tribes and States

Philip Carl Salzman

Tribes have equality and autonomy, but their structure is incompatible with modern democracy. Philip Carl Salzman describes Baluchi lineage groups: closer kin unite to oppose distant kin.

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Mathematics

Doing Mathematics Differently

Gregory Chaitin

Spattering drops of ink, Leibniz intuited that a theory as complex as the data it is supposed to explain is useless. Gregory Chaitin finds the same thing using algorithmic information theory.

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Physics

The Beginning of the Universe

Alexander Vilenkin

The BGV theorem shows the universe must have had a beginning. Alexander Vilenkin describes the theory of quantum creation, and how the universe could have a beginning and also be uncaused.

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Philosophy

Consciousness

Arthur Cody

Describing consciousness is hard. Can we characterize our experiences as thinking beings? Arthur Cody says no, but argues for the importance of the feelings that authorize us to initiate actions.

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Statistics

The Subjective Statistician

Paul Weirich

The big problem for Fisher/Bayesian statistics is subjectivity. Unifying Bayesian methods and Fisher significance tests, Paul Weirich has a theory of imprecise probabilities that resolves the problem.

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Political Science

The Best of Times

David Berlinski

Has violence declined in the modern world? How can we tell? David Berlinski looks at medieval and modern homicide rates, the causes of war, plus statistics and probabilities, to argue the reverse.

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Biology

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis Revisited (Part Three of Three)

Michael Denton

Despite many discoveries, orthodox evolutionary theory is no better able to explain innovations than it was 30 years ago. Michael Denton reappraises his 1985 book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.

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Astronomy

Ptolemy versus Copernicus

Frank Tipler & Wesley Bollinger

Between 1564 and his death in 1601, Tycho Brahe compared predictions made using the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems with his own. Frank Tipler examines the data Brahe recorded in his notebooks.

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Chemistry

The Hydrogen Bond

Marc Henry

That chemistry has been explained in terms of quantum theory is now received wisdom. Yet quantum physics is unable to predict or explain the strong association of water molecules in liquid or ice.