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2019I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
510 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2015The origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover art (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
326 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2012Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
320 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments
2013Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
221 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments
2019Taking sex differences in personality seriously (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
193 points | 3 years ago with 228 comments
2013How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
192 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2017Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
162 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2014Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
142 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2018The Dark Core of Personality (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
126 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2015Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2012IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2012Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2017Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2019The Libet experiment doesn't disprove free will (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
65 points | 3 years ago with 255 comments
2016Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
65 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2010Left-sided Cancer: Blame your bed and TV? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
53 points | 11 months ago with 54 comments
2013Why Life Does Not Really Exist (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
39 points | 11 months ago with 45 comments
2014Cows Learn Better with Friends (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
25 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments

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