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St John’s founders are stepping back. What comes next for the trailblazing nose-to-tail restaurant?
Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are retiring from day-to-day operations after 31 years
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November 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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What Is a Manifold? | Quanta Magazine
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine
A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
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October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects | Quanta Magazine
Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality | Quanta Magazine
The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real
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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real
A philosopher on how and whether we’ll ever decide if AI has sentience.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Making of a Market Maker
How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business
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October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie
How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine
Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled | Quanta Magazine
Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems | Quanta Magazine
Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck's Surprising History longreads.com/2025/08/26/i...
99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck's Surprising History - Longreads
From crime panics to TikTok, summer's favorite vehicle has driven a bumpy road.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand
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Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand
Western theories of consciousness tend to assume consciousness is about information.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Interesting listen open.spotify.com/episode/1C8l...
How an Outsider Optimized Sphere-Packing
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August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine
A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity | Quanta Magazine
A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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In Britain, knifemaking is having a renaissance
British knife makers are crafting some of the world’s finest blades. Only, it’s turning into a murky business, as Alex Moore finds out
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July 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM