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What Is the Answer to Zeno’s Paradox?

Why Achilles actually can catch a tortoise in a race.

Feb. 23 2014 11:54 PMUnder the DomeThe tragic, untold story of the world’s first planetarium.
Feb. 17 2014 5:53 AMVitruvian Man Had a HerniaThe beautifully proportioned drawing illustrates our place in the universe better than Leonardo da Vinci ever knew.
Feb. 12 2014 12:59 PMFive Reasons Why Absurdly Improbable Things Happen All the Time
Feb. 10 2014 11:17 AMThe Cruelty of CreationismA new documentary shows how biblical fundamentalism imprisons the mind.
Feb. 5 2014 9:29 AMScience vs. FictionKen Ham and Bill Nye debate evolution at the Creation Museum.
Jan. 29 2014 12:30 PMThe Missing MonarchsMonsanto’s Roundup and genetically modified crops are harming everybody’s favorite butterfly.
Jan. 26 2014 6:30 PMMap: Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism.Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science.
Jan. 16 2014 4:30 AMTexas Public Schools Are Teaching CreationismAn investigation into charter schools’ dishonest and unconstitutional science, history, and “values” lessons.
Jan. 3 2014 11:52 AMThe Rich Think They’re Superior. That’s Deluded and Dangerous.
Dec. 30 2013 8:24 AMAre Hobbits Human?Textual and genetic analysis of our closest real and magical relatives.
Dec. 23 2013 10:34 AMAnimals of the YearSlate’s best stories about other species.
Dec. 19 2013 3:53 PMBabies Want Revenge… As long as someone else levies the sentence. The science of right and wrong in infancy.
Dec. 16 2013 8:17 AMThe Sculpture on the MoonScandals and conflicts obscured one of the most extraordinary achievements of the Space Age. and
Dec. 6 2013 8:08 AMInside the BoxPeople don’t actually like creativity.
Dec. 4 2013 8:15 AMPromiscuity Is PragmaticWhy women and other female primates seek out multiple partners.
March 3 2014 11:38 AMWhat Separates Us From the Animals?Our imaginations. And having friends with imaginations.
Feb. 17 2014 11:55 PMHow Can You Explain “Color” to an 11-Year-Old?Alan Alda’s challenge to scientists: Let kids be the judges.
Feb. 13 2014 11:38 PMCupid’s LabradorDogs really can help you find love. and
Feb. 11 2014 4:22 PMThe Deadliest Cancers, in One Chart
Feb. 9 2014 11:50 PMThe Feminist Origins of “Eight Cups a Day”The water-healing quackery that empowered women’s medicine.
Jan. 30 2014 1:03 PMTen Things I Learned About MeAnd maybe about you, too, while writing a book about the self.
Jan. 27 2014 12:26 PMThe Darwin Fish Is Why You Can HearHow our deep ancestors breathed their way onto land.
Jan. 16 2014 11:39 PMHow Safe Is Our Drinking Water?
Jan. 7 2014 12:45 PMWhat Does a Puffin Taste Like?The answer is even worse than the question.
Jan. 2 2014 1:51 PMAntarctica’s Poet-in-ResidenceWhat endures and what does not?
Dec. 23 2013 11:45 PMIce PalacesSpectacular pressure ridges, glacial crevasses, and ice caves in Antarctica.
Dec. 22 2013 11:45 PMYour Penis Is Huge… Compared to an ape’s. It’s probably the same size as every other man’s, though.
Dec. 16 2013 2:00 PMDo We Live in a 10-Dimensional Hologram?Why physicists imagine mind-bending black-hole universes.
Dec. 12 2013 11:21 AMIs Anything More Adorable Than a Penguin?Especially when they tug on your shoelaces and give you a googly-eyed stare.
Dec. 4 2013 12:04 PMThe Most Neurosexist Study of the Year?Don’t believe the hype that men’s and women’s brains are wired differently.

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