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Twenty-nine: The Music of the Hemispheres
Do synchronized waves of cortical firing mean the brain is more like a musical device than a computer?
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Twenty-eight: A Flame-Coloured Cloud
The mystical journey of the Canadian Doctor Richard Bucke
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Twenty-seven: Nothing Doing!
From Lao-Tzu to Light, Part 2
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Happy New Year!
From A Brief Mystery of Light
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Twenty-six: Nothing Doing!
From Lao-tzu to Light, Part 1
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Twenty-five: Bits of a Star Gone Wrong
The post-1919 quest of Arthur Eddington
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Twenty-four: Light All Askew in the Heavens
The solar eclipses of 1919 and 1999 and their lessons
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Twenty-three: The Trickster Cosmos
Do measurements create reality, even backwards in time?
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Twenty-two: The Observer and The Observed
ABML examines the biggest Gordian Knot in science
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Twenty-one: Shut Up And Calculate
Just do the numbers, you cats
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Twenty: Boy Genius Hops On a Light Wave
...but refuses to disembark at the Copenhagen station
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Nineteen: "Let There Be Light!"
Clever ideas about light, from religious to philosophical to scientific
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A Brief Mystery of Light
A Brief Mystery of Light
The Cosmology, Mythology, and Psychology of Illumination Across Time

A Brief Mystery of Light

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