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The United States once sold itself as a radical bet on human equality, self-government, and the rule of law, a political experiment that promised ordinary people control over their own fate. Two and a ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s ...

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Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...