With the NBA Finals upon us, a mathematician revisits the famous paper that claims a player's hot streak is an illusion.
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By performing tricks for birds, monkeys, and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world.
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One study suggests that, on a global scale, it's associated with greater happiness.
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Fifty years ago, science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin popularized physics’ most enigmatic feline.
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We are economists, political-economists and policy specialists in related fields, writing to express our support for active measures to strengthen Australia's manufacturing capabilities and guide investment in critical infrastructure, including measures proposed in the Commonwealth government's Future Made in Australia policy framework [...]
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Amorina Kingdon’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Sing Like Fish.
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In my latest article in Journal of Agrarian Change, I argue that through the categories of world-ecology, the history of Australian capitalism is rendered legible. The article emerges from my 2023 doctoral thesis, which placed sugar alongside histories of invasion, pastoralism, and fossil capital to develop an eco-Marxist account of the origins of capitalism in Australia.
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An accident of lighting uncovers Jewish, European, and Islamic origins.
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An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar … and mull over survival.
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A radical theory that pagan cults gave rise to early Christianity.
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