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The drastic cuts for science funding in Brazil will send the country back in time. https://t.co/Q1Kjtc6LcV
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Apple, Google, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and more than 100 other companies have committed to power... https://t.co/hhJnXUOQU3
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Max Tegmark also wrote a guest blog for us at NPR's 13.7 about AI and us: https://t.co/jl6LgWKDFY
Recent Activities
The Nature of Reality
The recent ICE Puiblic Dialogue in San Francisco attracted more than 1200 people to the Nourse Theater.
The Sciences, The Humanities, The Future
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement (ICE), directed by Marcelo, brought together leading scientists, humanists, and public intellectuals for its launching conference.
Question Reality! Science, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo's edX online course investigating the limits of knowledge and what we can and cannot know of the world and ourselves was a smashing success. Check out the archives.
Meaning in a Silent Universe
In an essay for The New Atlantis, Marcelo shows why the findings of physics should help ease our sense of cosmic angst.
Information Dynamics at a Phase Transition
A new paper by Marcelo and Damian Sowinski on information theory and phase transitions.
The Origins of Life
In this TEDxEast talk, Marcelo tells the 13.7-billion-year story of our universe in 18 minutes.
LATEST BOOK
Marcelo discusses science and religion with CERN's director general, the Vatican's head of science and faith, and a scholar of Jain philosophy on BBC World Service's The Forum.
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