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Jan 22, 2025 | 
resilience.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
slguardian.org | Adam Thompson |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
eurasiareview.com | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
noemamag.com | Tim Maughan |Adam Frank |Nathan Gardels |Yuval Harari
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
kiplinger.com | Adam Frank
With the end of the year fast approaching, now is a good time to review your financial situation and check in on how you’re tracking toward your goals. Thoughtful year-end planning can help you set yourself up for success in the coming year. Here are seven strategies to consider as you think about optimizing your finances before the end of 2024. 1. Maximize retirement contributionsOne of the most impactful steps you can take is to review and maximize your retirement contributions.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
noemamag.com | Adam Frank
Credits Adam Frank is a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Rochester and a writer who explores topics including philosophy, science and culture. He is an inaugural winner of the annual Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. “Today is not your first arrival here.” — Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091-1157 CEAcross 15,000 generations, human beings have looked out at the sentinel stars and felt the pressing weight of myriad existential questions: Are we alone?
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Adam Frank
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
iai.tv | Bernardo Kastrup |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser
“What is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… I do not know”, famously quipped Saint Augustine. Our modern understanding of time is more scientific than ever, and many of us likely do now think we know how to explain time. While impressively the Swiss atomic clock has a range of uncertainty of 1 second in 30 million years. But the time of physics is not real time.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Adam Frank
Eclipses are not particularly rare in the universe. One occurs every time a planet, its orbiting moon, and its sun line up. Nearly every planet has a sun, and astronomers have reason to believe that many of them have moons, so shadows are bound to be cast on one world or another as the years pass. But solar eclipses like the one that millions of Americans will watch on April 8—in which a blood-red ring and shimmering corona emerge to surround a blackened sun—are a cosmic fluke.
