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One of my teammates shared with me a simple litmus test for assessing the health of her relationships: If she asks her report how things are going and the answer for multiple weeks is “Everything is fine,” she takes it as a sign to prod further. It’s much more likely that the report is shy about getting into the gory details than that everything is consistently rainbows and butterflies.

The Making of a Manager

Julie Zhuo

A platypus has an array of forty thousand electrosensors on the upper and lower surfaces of its bill. The simultaneous water movement and electric pulse were all it needed to get a direction and range.

Storm in a Teacup

Helen Czerski

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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