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Monetary Faith
Philip Pilkington
Central banks argue that economists should have faith in the natural interest rate and try their best to accommodate the banking system to it. But shouldn’t it rather be judged by its works?
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On the Futility of Contact Tracing
Jay Bhattacharya & Mikko Packalen
Contact tracing may be useful when the number of cases in an epidemic is very small, and only if it is applied aggressively. In cases that do not fit this description, it may make an outbreak worse.
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The Dark Matter Enigma
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one of the biggest challenges in astrophysics. Jean-Pierre Luminet confronts the many unresolved questions that obscure this perplexing aspect of our universe.
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Cosmology without Design
Lawrence Krauss
Does the remarkable fit between living things and their environment suggest that life was designed by an intelligent creator? Lawrence Krauss argues that such an inference is not well founded.
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Disinformed
Adam Garfinkle
Deepfakes create an illusion of reality more convincing than any produced in the past. Now is a time in which the line between reality and spectacle have already been blurred, Adam Garfinkle argues.
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The Yang–Mills Model
Sheldon Lee Glashow
A great master of theoretical physics reviews the development of the first and greatest non-abelian gauge theory and its role in the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Hot Wired
Brian Miller & Jeremy England
Jeremy England argues that descendants of the Crooks fluctuation theorem play a role in explaining life’s origin. Brian Miller is equally persuaded that these theorems are of little relevance.
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Misused Terms in Linguistics
Evelina Leivada
Many terms in linguistics are often used incorrectly or incoherently. Evelina Leivada points to ten of the very terms that linguists have learned to love, striking evidence that love is often blind.
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Good Eats
Vaclav Smil
Affluent countries currently produce far more food than they need, or could ever hope to consume. Vaclav Smil examines the enormity of this waste and its effects on health.
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