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Dr. Robert Chen first met Dr. Aileen Walker at a cognitive science conference in Philadelphia, and what struck him was not her intelligence or her research or even the striking precision of her delivery. What struck him was the way she remembered things.She was presenting her paper on memory disorders when a colleague from the audience asked her about a study she had cited—a longitudinal research on hyperthymesia published in 1998. Aileen did not simply reference the study. She recalled it with perfect accuracy: the sample size (thirty-seven subjects), the methodology (daily diary recall verification), the findings (subjects could recall...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 16 Views 0 Vista previa
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I am not a scientist. This is the first thing you need to know if you are going to understand this story, because the story is about scientists but it is not a story about science. It is a story aboutThe object at the center of this story is a glass house on the North Fork of Long Island. It belongs to my grandfather, Harold Linsey, who is ninety-five years old and mostly senile but whose eyes are sharp when he looks at stars. The glass house was built in 1962, the year I was born, by my grandfather and my grandmother, who believed that glass would let the universe in, that if they could...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 1 Views 0 Vista previa
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Night Shift Science## Act I: The Warehouse Ben Crawford worked the night shift at a warehouse on the edge of Youngstown, Ohio. The warehouse was not a warehouse in the traditional sense—it was a former steel mill that had been converted for storage after the mill closed in 2008. Now it held boxes of old furniture, pallets of used clothing, and shelves of electronics that nobody had claimed. Ben's job was to check...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 7 Views 0 Vista previa
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The Last Science Writer## Act I: The Knock The rain in Chicago didn't fall so much as it hovered, a perpetual grey mist that soaked through coats and settled into bones. Jack Morane knew this because he had spent six years in the war learning exactly how cold wet felt, and three years since the war learning how cold lonely felt. His office was on the third floor of a building on South State Street that smelled of...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 2 Views 0 Vista previa
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The rose bloomed at midnight, as roses do in laboratories where science has ventured into territories that God never intended anyone to visit.Sir Henry Wogrin stood over it, his reflection fractured in the glass walls of the containment chamber, his face pale and drawn in the greenish light that filled the underground laboratory beneath his Hampstead home. The rose was not a normal rose. It glowed—a soft blue luminescence that pulsed slowly, like a heartbeat, like breath, like something that was almost alive but not quite, hovering...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 6 Views 0 Vista previa
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The Science BeatAct I: The Beat Jack Callahan had been a journalist for twelve years and had learned, through trial and error and a growing collection of alcohol-related regrets, that the best stories were the ones nobody wanted you to tell. He worked for the New York Chronicle, a paper that had once been respectable and was now mostly interested in celebrity gossip and sports scores. Jack covered city council...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 8 Views 0 Vista previa
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The Science FrontierThe first physicist killed himself on a Tuesday. The second on a Thursday. By the time the fourth one was found hanging in his Berkeley apartment, I knew this wasn't a trend—it was a pattern. And patterns, in my experience, are just lies that the universe tells you so you'll feel like you understand them. They brought me to the meeting in a government sedan that smelled like stale cigarettes...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 12 Views 0 Vista previa
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The Science in the SwampThe heat in Mississippi did not simply exist -- it occupied. It moved through the delta like a tenant who had paid his rent in advance and intended to stay forever. It was May 1927, and the air above the swamp was so thick with humidity that breathing felt like drinking warm soup. Miss Eloise Beauregard stood in the doorway of the stable and watched her students file in. They came barefoot...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 8 Views 0 Vista previa
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The signal arrived on a night in November, 1894, and Dr. Thomas Blackwood listened to it because he was a man of science and science demanded that he listen to everything, even things that made his hands tremble.The instrument was new—a crude electromagnetic detector built from vacuum tubes and copper wire, sitting on the desk of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Thomas had calibrated it himself, because no one else at the observatory understood the mathematics behind it, and the Director, a man named Harrington who understood only politics, had assigned Thomas to "special projects" as a polite way...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 8 Views 0 Vista previa
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The Triple Infestation: New England Dark Science VariantThe Triple Infestation: New England Dark Science Variant Batch 9 - Work ID 66081: The Triple Infestation Tensor: TI=98.0 (T0 Annihilation), M=[10.0,0.3,10.0,8.5,3.0,8.0,9.5,6.0,8.0,9.5], N=[0.30,0.70], K=[0.15,0.85], theta=315.0 Dr. Margaret Calloway had spent eighteen years at MIT building a career on one principle: that the natural world could be observed, categorized, and understood without...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 6 Views 0 Vista previa
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Victor Vance was a man of science, and science is the art of control. As a biologist in New York, he was obsessed with the concept of the "Biological Singularity"—the point where life could be engineered to be immortal.He found the Parasite-Dimension during a botched experiment with quantum entanglement. It looked like a lush, primordial jungle, a world of vibrant colors and impossible growth. Victor saw it as a laboratory. Using the System, he began to build a colony. He engineered crops that grew in seconds and structures that breathed. He created a society of "Optimized Humans," beings who were immune to...0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 12 Views 0 Vista previa
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