Issue 46: Balance

Related Facts So Romantic

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne

Biology
We Should Count Balance As One of the Senses

One Tuesday in January, a leather briefcase strung across my shoulder, I tramped through the damp campus of a large California university, looking for the classroom where I would lecture.…
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Numbers
Computers Beat Humans at Poker. Next Up: Everything Else?

Over the span of 20 days early this year, artificial intelligence encountered a major test of how well it can tackle problems in the real world. A program called Libratus took on…
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Numbers
How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, certainly raised the profile of quantum computing a few notches last year, when he gamely—if vaguely1—described it for a press conference.…
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Ideas
How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

After a visit from one of his patients in March, 1966, the psychiatrist Maurice Heatly noted, “This massive, muscular youth seemed to be oozing with hostility as he initiated the hour…
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