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Volume 2, Issue 3

September 28, 2016

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Critical Essays

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The Recovery of Case
David Berlinski & Juan Uriagereka
[short_description] Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter assumed that case is obligatory even in English, and part of Universal Grammar. Here Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski analyze Vergnaud’s case filter.
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Fukugen
Ivan Fesenko
[short_description] Inter-Universal Teichmüller theory applies mono-anabelian algorithms to algebraic fundamental groups in one universe to obtain descriptions of objects constructed from those groups in another
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The Excitable Mitochondria
John Hewitt
[short_description] Without a CAD model of the brain, we will never be able to develop advanced brain implants. Instead of scaling up neural nets, John Hewitt argues, we need to begin with mitochondrial networks.

Review Essays

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Cantor’s Diagonalization Method
Alexander Kharazishvili
[short_description] Mathematician Alexander Kharazishvili explores how powerful the celebrated diagonal method is for general and descriptive set theory, recursion theory, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

Short Notes

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On Being a Fish
Bret Weinstein
[short_description] How are humans fish? In the first of a series on technical nomenclature, evolutionary theorist Bret Weinstein distinguishes clade, taxon, and monophyletic group from functional groupings.
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Lost at Sea
Josh Gelernter
[short_description] In 1938, the brilliant young theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana dropped off the face of the earth. Josh Gelernter explores his foundational work and mysterious disappearance.

Book Reviews

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Reinventing Linguistics – Again
W. Tecumseh Fitch
[short_description] How to reconcile Noam Chomsky the linguist and philosopher with Chomsky the political critic? In a review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch finds an underlying unity.
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It’s You, Again
Daniel Kleitman
[short_description] Must there be an infinite number of copies of you, in an infinite number of local universes? Mathematician Daniel Kleitman says no. A review of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe.
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Good God!
Luke Barnes
[short_description] Even an atheist has to believe something. Luke Barnes reviews Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, and his construction of an atheistic worldview.
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Vegetable Rights
Daniel Gelernter
[short_description] Is human culture in denial of vegetal existence? Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.

Film Reviews

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Touched by the Goddess
Krishnaswami Alladi
[short_description] A recent film starring Dev Patel depicts Srinivasa Ramanujan’s mathematical achievements and tragically early death at 32. Number theorist Krishnaswami Alladi reviews The Man Who Knew Infinity.

Experiment Reviews

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Two Experiments in Abiogenesis
James Tour
[short_description] Two new papers claim to find further support for the RNA World hypothesis and that nucleotide formation and selection may have been robust processes on the prebiotic Earth. James Tour disagrees.
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