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A spot of culture

20 December 2011

Scientists who are changing the way we understand the world tell Âé¶¹´«Ã½ CultureLab their favourite places to seek inspiration and reflect

IT MAY be called , but the mixture of the bona fide and fantastical celebrated in the Culver City, California, venue makes it feel more like “a large installation artwork” to Alison Gopnik. “I’ve recently been exploring the links between the kinds of scientific imagination that enable us to construct radically new theories of the world and the kind of fertile fictive imagination that is ubiquitous in very young children’s pretend play. This…

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