Why organisations pick the wrong leaders When leaders all end up looking the same, it could be because they’re chosen for the wrong qualities.

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I’m sick of London’s food scene London’s food scene can be divided into two neat factions: restaurants that are worth the money and restaurants that are not.

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The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere | Quanta Magazine The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.

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How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos | Quanta Magazine Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

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Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World | Quanta Magazine How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

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Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations | Quanta Magazine Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues.

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Wonton and On (and On) | How Hong Kong-Style Dumplings Are Booming in London London is blessed when it comes to Chinese restaurants, meaning we are rich in Chinese dumplings, with wontons in the spotlight right now

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In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.

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Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations | Quanta Magazine A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, researchers have found a slew of new candidates in simpler versions of the pr...

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The Year in Computer Science | Quanta Magazine Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and the unexpect...

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The Year in Biology | Quanta Magazine Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs.

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The Year in Mathematics | Quanta Magazine Explore a shape that can’t pass through itself, a teenage prodigy, and two new kinds of infinity.

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The Year in Physics | Quanta Magazine Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics.

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The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...

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St John’s founders are stepping back. What comes next for the trailblazing nose-to-tail restaurant? Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are retiring from day-to-day operations after 31 years

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What Is a Manifold? | Quanta Magazine In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

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How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.

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In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects | Quanta Magazine Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution.

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Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality | Quanta Magazine The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.

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The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

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How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.

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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real A philosopher on how and whether we’ll ever decide if AI has sentience.

The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real
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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.

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The Making of a Market Maker How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

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Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.

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To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...

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A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled | Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

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