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A Non-Supernerds' Guide to Radiohead's New Album, 'A Moon Shaped Pool'
You have questions. We have answers.
How to Tell When Statistics Are Bullshit
We asked Tim Harford, host of statistics podcast More Or Less, how we can find out when newspapers and politicians are being liberal with the truth.
From a Woozy Soichi Terada to a Thunderous Ben UFO in This Week's Seven Most Played
Everything we've been bumping in the office over the past seven days.
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Physicists Cut Through the Randomest Randomness of Large Quantum Systems
Even quantum dice are loaded.
Why Not: A Sorting Algorithm Based on the Fake-Theory of Intelligent Design
What computer science textbooks don't want you to know.
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The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong)
How a textbook example of an engineering failure—and the famous video that captured it—got twisted.
Google Claims Its D-Wave Quantum Computer Is the Real Deal—Sort Of
A study posted this week shows the two-year-old machine beating out a classical computer 100 million times over.
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Can Physics Prove If We're Being Lied to About the Downed Russian Jet?
It can at least offer the suggestion that something is amiss.
Numbers By Numbers With Spencer
The Glasgow label's boss talks us through their year in facts and figures.
This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity
Stanford physicists offer an intriguing proposal.