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Contact Tracing and Consequences
Martin Kulldorff
[short_description] COVID-19 contact tracing programs are eroding trust between the public and public health agencies—with potential dire consequences for future disease outbreaks in which contact tracing could be critical.
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On Algorithmic Amplification
Hany Farid
[short_description] The culprits in the plunge into delusion are not deepfakes. The real culprit is more mundane and pernicious: the algorithms that curate the information recommended by search engines and social media.
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On the Risk Posed by Deepfakes
Alexander Lanoszka
[short_description] Adam Garfinkle has made a compelling argument that deepfakes pose dangers to politics and news information. But there are, thankfully, some reasons for not sharing his pessimism—at least, not fully.
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On Modified Gravity
Viktor Toth
reply by Jean-Pierre Luminet
[short_description] Viktor Toth adds theoretical insights to the modified theories of gravity that aimed to solve the dark matter problem without necessitating the existence of hypothetic particles of nonbaryonic matter.
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On Fine-Tuning and Design
Stephen Meyer
reply by Lawrence Krauss
[short_description] Does fine-tuning convey an illusion of design or design itself? If Lawrence Krauss remains underwhelmed by arguments in favor of design, Stephen Meyer remains underwhelmed by arguments in favor of Krauss.
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Confusions Regarding Quantum Mechanics
Gerard ’t Hooft
reply by Sheldon Lee Glashow
[short_description] Though strong evidence supports the validity of the Standard Model up to the TeV domain, we do not understand why this model would be all there is to describe what happens beyond that scale.
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Reflections on a Revolution
John Iliopoulos
reply by Sheldon Lee Glashow
[short_description] Gauge theories brought about a profound revolution in the way physicists think about the fundamental forces. It is this revolution that is the subject of Sheldon Lee Glashow’s essay.
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Further Questions for Glashow
Goran Senjanović
reply by Sheldon Lee Glashow
[short_description] In “The Yang–Mills Model,” Glashow has described one of the greatest chapters in the history of physics, the story of a beautiful mathematical concept transformed into a theory for all seasons.
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On the Origins of Life
Helen Hansma
reply by Brian Miller
[short_description] The perspective Brian Miller and Jeremy England bring to their essay on the origins of life is that of physics. Yet the origins of life are, ultimately, chemical and biological.
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