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Hackerspace Pixelbar in Rotterdam has burned down

The underwater search for an alien meteor

Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95

The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth

What do twin studies really say about identity and genetics? | Aeon Essays

A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled

Student, 56, considers quitting after 27 attempts at college entrance exam

How to Imagine 52 Factorial

What can Augustine of Hippo’s philosophy teach us about hope? | Aeon Essays

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

Hunter-gatherer lifestyle fosters thriving gut microbiome

Happiness is a reward from our ancestors

The Last Day of Constantinople

France's Proposed Website Blocking: A Dangerous Threat to the Open Internet

Show HN: Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration

The Paradoxes of Nostalgia

What my violin taught me about awe, purpose and the power in taking a chance

On Sociopaths and Progress

Lithuania’s capital Vilnius to get ‘Europe’s largest tech campus,’ costing €100M

Einstein's Philosophy of Science

Scientists Plan to Measure Distorted Time in Deep Space to Probe Reality

Kykeon: Psychoactive compounded brew from ancient Greece

Sea-going search for alien fragments yields odd spherules

Neglected Wittgensteinian critique of the computer model of the mind