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Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

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Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

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In years past, my go-to word in describing our political condition was “polarization.” I used it endlessly and still do on ...