Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

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Scott McLeod

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A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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3 philosophy classics that are better than self-help books

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Thinking

How to reclaim meaning in a changing world

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13.8

New UFO hearings continue an “endless loop” of sensation

Astronomer Adam Frank asks: With so many extraordinary claims, why can’t anybody produce the proof?

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“Mad King” behavior: A prediction for how 21st-century nuclear war would unfold

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