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Robert Sapolsky:What If Free Will Is Just a Story We Tell Ourselves?

Ray Oufoz1 day ago19 hours ago06 mins

Robert Sapolsky was 14 when he decided there was no such thing as free will. It was late at night, and the realization came all at once: no God, no cosmic plan, no hidden hand steering the world—just biology and chance. “It was this big, empty, indifferent universe,” he remembers. For most teenagers, that kind…

Voyager 1.Humanity’s First Step Toward a Light-Day in space

Ray Oufoz2 days ago1 day ago04 mins

Nearly half a century after leaving Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching a milestone unlike any in human history. Within the next two years, it will become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one full light-day from Earth—the span light travels in 24 hours, or roughly 16 billion miles (25.7 billion…