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Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
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Researchers video chimpanzee mothers teaching their kids how to use tools.
Though the logic of the Nobel committee is pretty easy to glean when it comes to the sciences, in other, less-defined categories, it surprises on a fairly regular basis.
A brain-computer music interface system allows four patients to compose their own string quartet.
An explanation of why clean coal is just fiction, or at best a climate-change denier’s fantasy.
Edward Slingerland offers two possible ways to sneak up on becoming effortless without making a direct effort to do so.
Christina Smolke, a brilliant Stanford scientist, has engineered yeast that can produce opiates without poppies.
Two billionaires are apparently funding research into how we can escape the simulation they believe we’re trapped in.