Politics & Current Affairs — April 15, 2011

Why Lincoln Would Make a Terrible Candidate in 2012

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His agnosticism would make him a completely untenable candidate in modern times, especially within the Republican party.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

A storefront with signs for psychic telepathy readings and a phone number. Two white plastic chairs are placed in front. The storefront is pink with a black awning and a large hand sign advertising $10 readings.

Neuropsych

The psychology of the psychic

Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here’s how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.

A room simulating a Martian landscape with red sand, rocky walls, a green tent, and NASA equipment.

The Future

NASA medical officer on spending 378 days in a Mars simulation

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

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Business

The trillion-dollar AI race to create “Digital God”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Starts With A Bang

Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

Comparison of weight on Earth and Mars for a 1 kg mass. On Earth: gravity = 9.81 m/s², weight = 9.81 N. On Mars: gravity = 3.72 m/s², weight = 3.72 N; demonstrating that weight and mass are not the same across different planets due to varying gravitational forces.

Starts With A Bang

It’s important that weight and mass are not the same

Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.

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