The indirect pursuit of happiness
It's wide-ranging and engaging, but John Kay's Obliquity misrepresents psychology and overstates its "brilliant new idea" of pursuing goals indirectly
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Scientific fraud, and how not to do it
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Picking our brains: Can mental illness make you creative?
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How you emerge from your brain
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Genius, genes and environment
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String theory untangled
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Bad news for anglers
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Did Renaissance painters ‘cheat’ with optical aids?
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World of Warcraft predicts the future
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The universe is a quantum computer
So says Vlatko Vedral in Decoding Reality 鈥� and that's not metaphor, it's hard science, says quantum information expert Seth Lloyd
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Life-as-web theory can’t be woven from fieldwork yarns
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Power to the people: In praise of batteries
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Learning to use nature’s GPS
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The mysterious case of the frogs’ legs
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