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  1. A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design Frank Wilczek ““You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.””
Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on complementarity as the quantum of life and why reality...

    A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design

    Frank Wilczek

    “You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.”

    Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on complementarity as the quantum of life and why reality is woven of opposing truths:

  2. How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog Chad Orzel The central mystery of quantum mechanics, animated:

    How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

    Chad Orzel

    The central mystery of quantum mechanics, animated:

  3. Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit Krista Tippett “ “How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at… Science and religion… ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither...

    Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit

    Krista Tippett

    “How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at… Science and religion… ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither could alone.”

    Einstein’s God – mind-bending, soul-stretching read on free will, science, and spirituality:

  4. Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics Robert Gilmore An imaginative allegory of quantum physics, written and illustrated (!) by a CERN physicist, doubly brilliant for flying in the face of gender stereotypes with a female protagonist...

    Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

    Robert Gilmore

    An imaginative allegory of quantum physics, written and illustrated (!) by a CERN physicist, doubly brilliant for flying in the face of gender stereotypes with a female protagonist who makes sense of some of the most intense science of all time.

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