This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As far back as the year 2000, a bookstore on ...

Split a mile in half, you get half a mile. Split the half mile, you get a quarter, and on and on, until you’ve carved out a length far smaller than the diameter of an atom. Can this slicing continue ...

Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...

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As far back as the year 2000, a bookstore on Charing Cross Road in central London bore a sign that said "Any Amount of Books." These days one often hears people conflate not only "amount" and "number" ...