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A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.
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The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
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After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
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Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
If the “self” is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.