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Science writer Sharon Begley on how anxiety drives modern day compulsions.More
Physicist Freeman Dyson reflects on what he learned from Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.More
Despite pining for landline telephones, writer Virginia Heffernan sees magic in the potential of the internet.More
Writer and producer Damon Krukowski explains why we must take care in eschewing analog imperfection in pursuit of more perfect digital sound.More
Psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett runs a lab where she studies emotions and says that if you pay attention, everyday anger can be a source of wisdom.More
Siri Hustvedt on developing voices on new platforms, all while coping with old-fashioned sexism. More
Facing the costs to being a victim of online harassment, where’s the law when you need it?More
A Teen Vogue editor finds herself arguing with Tucker Carlson. And then it gets worse.More
Can psychedelics help you find God? Clinical psychologist Bill Richards thinks so. More
Psychedelic drugs show remarkable promise for treating addiction and end-of-life anxiety.More
Katherine MacLean describes her work as a skilled guide to a psychedelic trip. More
Desperate for help with his PTSD, Dan Kasza took a strange brew of frog venom and ayahuasca.More
How taking microdoses of LSD for a month helped her find a calm she hadn’t known for years.More
Doug Eck directs Google’s new “Magenta” project, an experiment in teaching machines to make art, leveraging advances in machine learning like neural networks to enable computers to do things like compose music.More
As an acquisitions editor for Penguin Books, Jodie Archer saw many novelists struggling to write books that would sell. Then she went to grad school at Stanford, where she and her advisor created an algorithm to help.More
When a computer program fixes a writer’s novel, or improvises a few bars of music, is that real creativity? Are they not just doing what they were programmed to do? Blaise Agüera y Arcas would wholeheartedly disagree.More
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