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Informed speculations on matters worldly and otherworldly
by columnist JIM HOLT
- New!: Mistaken Identity Theory: Why Scientists Always Pick the Wrong Man (March 2000)
- Little Big Man: Are We As Old As We Are Tall? (February 2000)
- Soul Survivor: The Logic of Reincarnation (December/January 2000)
- Dream On: Does Sleep Make Sense? (November, 1999)
- Least Action Hero: Does a Ray of Light Know Where It's Going? (October, 1999)
- Higher Superstitions: The Case for Astrology (September, 1999)
- Time Passages: How Long Does it Take for a Second to Go By? (July, 1999)
- The Bloody Truth: Are Stigmatics Neurotics? (May, 1999)
- Fearful Symmetry: Why Kant Should Have Studied Snowflakes (April, 1999)
- Talking Heads: Speaking Out of Both Sides of Your Brain (March, 1999)
- Stolen Moments: A Brief History of Time's Little White Lies (February, 1999)
- Staying Alive: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Immortality (December, 1998)
- Death Wish: Do Our Cells Want to Commit Suicide? (November, 1998)
- The Joy of Sets: Who's Responsible for the New Math? (October, 1998)
- The Premise Keepers: Must You Accept a Valid Argument? (July, 1998)
- Get Smart: Will We All Become Geniuses? (May, 1998)
- What's So Funny?: Making Sense of Humor (April, 1998)
- Wheel of Fortune: The Hazards of Driving Sober (March, 1998)
- The Loophole: A Logician Challenges the Constitution (February, 1998)
- Motion Sickness: A Random Walk from Paris to Wall Street (December, 1997)
- The Monster, and Other Mathematical Beliefs (November, 1997)
- Doom Soon: A Philosophical Invitation to Hypothesis (October, 1997)