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Venus and Jupiter have a brief encounter

They’re close tonight, they’re flying high together, but their brief tryst is doomed. In fact by morning they will already be drifting apart. The orbits of Venus and jupiter are separated by millions...

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The problem with time travel

Even when I was heavily reading science fiction, I tended to avoid time travel books. Look, I can buy robots and space travel and even teleportation, in terms of suspension of disbelief, time travel...

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Was the Philip K Dick android worth the effort?

Somewhere out there is an android replica of Philip K Dick. No, this isn’t science fiction, although it could be. The brilliant maverick robot designer David Hanson teamed up with AI expert Andrew...

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Lucid Dream Machine

Have you ever been dreaming and suddenly realized that you were in fact in a dream? That’s lucid dreaming. Until recently lucid dreaming wasn’t even studied by sleep scientists because they didn’t...

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Mandelbrot, Markets, and the Maverick’s Fallacy

Mandelbrot was an intellectual outsider, an independent thinker who found no solace in the halls of academia. ““I saw no compatibility between a university position in France and my still-burning wild...

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Prophets of science fiction

Ridley Scott has a new documentary series, Prophets of Science Fiction. Ed Finn’s tantalising review in Slate is full of insights. As Dick knew well, technology is rapidly shifting the ground rules of...

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Visiting the Deep Future might not be as fun as you think

New Scientist magazine is currently running a series of articles on the deep future, around 100,000 years from now. The article “What will we be like?” suggests that it’s likely that there will be no...

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