Sean Carroll
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Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize for showing that black holes are an almost-unavoidable prediction of classical general relativity. Let's take a peek into what that entailed. 1/n Einstein wrote
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I have a theory about why philosophy doesn't always get the respect it deserves. I will proceed to illustrate this theory with a story. (1/n) Once in junior-high math class,
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Does critical thinking make you vulnerable to disinformation? There's a "done wrongly" caveat here, but I still don't agree that "critical thinking is deep attention." Knowing what to ignore is
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Hugh Everett's birthday! Pioneer of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Let us celebrate by thinking about ontological extravagance. I will do so by way of analogy, because I have
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