paradoxes

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Mr. Miles tackles the brutal paradoxes of ecological conservation with unexpected comedic flair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

One of the paradoxes of sleep is that the more we fixate on getting it, the less likely we are to achieve it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

We’d be able to explain to them everything we know—from the adventures of Alice in Wonderland to the paradoxes of quantum physics—and they could teach us how their people view the world.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari