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Axelrod found that players are most apt to gravitate to this system when they are likely to encounter the other players again. Without this "shadow of the future," there is every incentive to cheat--to drink but not share blood or, in the case of the stock market, to dump...
This doesn't mean we won't be challenged, that we won't encounter difficult questions, that our lives will be stress-free. Nor does it mean that our lives are entirely disconnected from the "real" lives on the ground: the point of an airplane is, after all, to ferry...
Rather expectedly, he becomes attracted to a student, though his obsession arrives not in the dewy-eyed, nubile form but in the unlikely person of Angela Argo, a fierce, skinny and multipierced "punk Chihuahua" who offers up a novel, chapter by chapter, for Swenson's critique. Flummoxed by her talent...
As scary as this seems, disaster is not inevitable. For after nearly 4 billion years of life on Earth, a species has evolved that can prevent the next catastrophic encounter--if it has the will to do so. That species is us.
HORGAN: I hope you're right, Paul. I became a science writer because I believe science is humanity's most meaningful creation. We are here to figure out why we are here. The thought that this grand adventure of discovery might end haunts me. What would it be like to...