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The Truth About Auto Safety
Cars may no longer be unsafe at any speed. Not so the drivers.
The Fast Food Fruit
The banana’s journey from the plantation to you is one long science project.
The Best Way Yet to Talk to Aliens (If They’re Out There)
Taming the Unfriendly Skies
How one airline wrestles with the uncertainty of weather.
Joys of Noise
The reliability of some technologies depends on just the right amount of randomness.
The Coin Toss and the Love Triangle
There are two flavors of uncertainty in our lives. Math helps with both.
The Deepest Uncertainty
When a hypothesis is neither true nor false.
Artificial Emotions
How long until a robot cries?
In the Mind of the Fractal King
A reconstructed interview on life and fractals.
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