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The Quantastic Journal

My Great-Grandfather Was the Architect of Quantum Mechanics, but You Probably Don’t Know His Name

The reasons may have been political…

Oct 9

My Great-Grandfather Was the Architect of Quantum Mechanics, but You Probably Don’t Know His Name

Oct 9

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Human Rationality is a Myth

The idea that people are, or even can be, rational in their beliefs and behaviour, is a product of The Enlightenment. It is a myth.

Jun 30

Human Rationality is a Myth

Jun 30

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Romantic Consumerism is Killing Modern Relationships

How the Internet changed the way we love and relate.

Jul 18

Romantic Consumerism is Killing Modern Relationships

Jul 18

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No, we’re not living in a simulation. Here’s why.

The idea that we might be living inside the simulation of some more advanced future civilisation sounds like something a stoner might dream…

Apr 20

No, we’re not living in a simulation. Here’s why.

Apr 20

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Thought Thinkers

Olivia and the Fame Supernova

What I learned growing up as the nephew of a superstar

2d ago

Olivia and the Fame Supernova

2d ago

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Grim Tidings

Did Osama bin Laden Destroy America?

The road from 9/11 to Trump

Nov 8

Did Osama bin Laden Destroy America?

Nov 8

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Grim Tidings

Societies Built on Infinite Relations

A dialogue on the implications of late-modern science for humanist values

Nov 7

Societies Built on Infinite Relations

Nov 7

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Philosophy Today

The Emergence of the Relational Paradigm

What comes after atomism?

Oct 27

The Emergence of the Relational Paradigm

Oct 27

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Thought Thinkers

Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia Is a Nihilistic Masterpiece

Though it’s arguably more anti-cinema than cinema

Oct 12

Promotional image for Melancholia (2011) / Magnolia Pictures

Oct 12

Pierz Newton-John

Social Ratchets — How Cultures Tend to Become More Extreme Over Time

Ratchets are devices that allow a mechanism to move in one direction but not the other. An analogous mechanism can drive social extremes.

Oct 4

Social Ratchets — How Cultures Tend to Become More Extreme Over Time

Oct 4

Pierz Newton-John

Pierz Newton-John

Writer, coder, former psychotherapist, founding member of The School Of Life Melbourne. Essayist for Dumbo Feather magazine, author of Fault Lines (fiction).

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