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Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything in his life.He glanced at a stranger and named his regiment, his climate, and his wound. He looked at a battered hat and described a marriage in decline. He noticed that a dog had failed to bark and knew who had walked into the stable. Readers have called...

For four centuries we have told ourselves a flattering story about the universe. It could have been almost anything, the story goes, and out of that vast lottery of possible worlds our own came up as the winning ticket, tuned with impossible precision to allow stars, chemistry, and eventually us...

Wenn dunkle Abgründe auf österreichischen Charme treffen: Der Kriminalwalzer beleuchtet reale Kriminalfälle mit einer Portion schwarzem Humor, Morbidität und dem unverwechselbaren Wiener Schmäh. Von Verbrechen aus der Großstadt Wien, aus Österreich, Deutschland und der Welt. Host: Boris Wendel Experte: Peter Hiess

Your brain is old. Everyone agrees. It is also the least useful fact anyone has ever brought to a discussion of the modern world.The standard story goes like this: we carry Stone Age equipment through a manufactured landscape, and the collision explains everything from the slot machine to the...

He spent his life defending a single dangerous sentence: truth cannot contradict truth. For Averroes — judge, physician, and the boldest philosopher of the medieval Islamic world — reason and revelation were two roads leading to the same city, and to forbid one road was to insult the God who...

Modern cosmology is populated almost entirely by things no one has ever seen. Dark matter, dark energy, fields and particles known only by their effects: the visible universe floats on a vast reservoir of the inferred. This is not a scandal. It is how ambitious physics has always worked. The...

Everyone knows what Jekyll and Hyde means. A respectable man harbors a beast. The beast gets out. The phrase has become shorthand for anyone whose temper is unreliable before lunch.The trouble is that the book says nothing of the kind, and says so at length.Read the confession Stevenson actually...

You are about to be born, and you get to write the rules first. There is one catch: you do not know who you will be. Not your family, not your country, not your talents, not your health, not your century. Whatever you write will land on you with the full weight of a life. What do you write?That...

Everyone knows the hair, the tongue, the equation. Almost nobody knows the questions.Albert Einstein spent his life refusing to accept that anything was a coincidence. Clocks in railway stations, a needle swinging in a sick child's bedroom, the fact that a falling man feels weightless, a...

In the spring of 1898 a young woman with no laboratory of her own placed a pinch of uranium ore between two metal plates and read a number off a quartz electrometer built by her husband and his brother. The number was too large. It was larger than the uranium in the sample could account for, and...

Kafkaesque. Everyone knows the word. Almost nobody knows the man.Franz Kafka once read the opening chapter of The Trial aloud to his friends and laughed so hard he had to stop. Almost nothing in the popular image of him survives contact with that fact. The gloomy saint of alienation was a...

Stars are supposed to stay put. They wheel around the center of the Milky Way for billions of years, obedient as commuters on a circle line, and the galaxy keeps every one of them. Almost every one. Every so often a star gets a shove so violent that the galaxy cannot hold it, and it leaves for...

He solved the problem of the missing planet in a few weeks, and told almost no one how. He worked out the geometry of curved space decades before anyone published it, and locked the pages in a drawer. He wrote his most explosive result about an asteroid as a coded cipher, so that he could claim...

You went to the drawer for scissors. The scissors were not there. What was there was a warranty for a toaster you no longer own, a key that opens nothing in this house, and a photograph you had forgotten you were in. You closed the drawer annoyed, because you had come for scissors, and annoyance...

Kafkaesk. Jeder kennt das Wort. Fast niemand kennt den Mann.Franz Kafka las seinen Freunden einmal das erste Kapitel von „Der Prozess“ vor und lachte so laut, dass er aufhören musste. Fast nichts an dem gängigen Bild von ihm hat diese Tatsache überstanden. Der düstere Heilige der...

Nearly two thousand years ago, a Greek physician noticed that his patients suffered from a peculiar ailment no drug could touch. They were sick with certainty. They clutched their opinions like fevered men clutching blankets, and the tighter they held, the worse they burned. His name was Sextus...

When I was five years old, wrapped in a blanket I pretended was a lion pelt, I banged a hockey stick on the floor and demanded that death be cancelled. Death responded by killing my hamster.That was the beginning of a war I have been losing ever since — along with every other human being who...

Brahman is real; the world is an error; the self is nothing other than Brahman. The verse that has summarized Advaita Vedanta for the better part of a thousand years is anonymous. Shankara never wrote it. And it may have cost him more sympathetic readers than any of his opponents ever managed to...

In 1889 the King of Sweden gave a prize to a young Frenchman for settling the oldest open question in astronomy: whether the solar system will hold together forever. He had not settled it. Worse, he found the error himself, after the memoir was printed and bound, and paid out of his own pocket...

Gilbert Gosseyn n'est plus une victime. Grâce à sa maîtrise du A, il a appris à se servir de son cerveau second et est bien décidé à démasquer les acteurs obscurs d'un complot dont les ramifications ne cessent de s'étendre. Une partie d'échecs cosmique dont l'enjeu n'est autre que la survie du système solaire... Se révèlent ainsi deux des participants de ce jeu mortel qui se trame aux quatre coins de la galaxie : Enro le rouge, dictateur arriviste du plus grand empire, et le disciple, ombre fantomatique sans scrupules.