Interdisciplinary Studies

“We can’t remove all risks, and life is always about tradeoffs,” said Barnaby Marsh, Visitor in the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies. "What’s important is that you understand the reality of the risks you’re taking.”

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New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than does the sum of their microscopic components.

In a recent essay, Erik Hoel, Visitor in...

Humans are probably not the greatest intelligences in the universe. Earth is a relatively young planet and the oldest civilizations could be billions of years older than us. But even on Earth, Homo sapiens may not be the most intelligent species for...

When John Nash, Member in the School of Mathematics on several occasions, was killed in a car accident in May 2015, he was in the final stages of coediting a book on unsolved mathematical problems with Michael Th. Rassias, Visitor in the Program in...