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The annual question from Edge.org: what should we be worried about? A remarkable essay by Eugene Wigner on the The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences . A look back at Aaron Schwartz's life in The New Yorker . Here's the detailed story of the discovery of the Higgs boson in The New York Times by the renowned science writer Dennis Overbye . You can't miss this  Esquire  interview with the Navy SEAL who actually shot bin Laden . This is a  fascinating article  about the future by Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Articles about the Iraq war in the New Yorker . Engines of our Ingenuity —    a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Jonah Lehrer articles from the New Yorker . Jonah Lehrer article about memory in Wired . An article about the human urge for exploration from the National Geographic . Are you living in a computer simulation?

What are the benefits and losses in watching a movie more than 20 years after it's made? I don't know. I got around to watching this one recently after Nora Ephron died which brought the movie into focus. Which is not to say that I had never heard of it -- just that I never got around to watching it. I read some of Nora Ephron's fine magazine writing. Read some of the wonderful screenplay. THEN I got around to watching the movie. And it was disappointing. How often does it jump in 5-year intervals? Life happens one day at a time -- life is continuous, not discrete or quantized.