paradoxes

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More recently, novelist Edmund White, a godfather of queer literature, delivered his ruminations in his 2016 book “The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

Diana Deutsch, a psychology professor at UC San Diego, discovered the original speech-to-song illusion in 1995 while working on her CD, Musical Illusions and Paradoxes.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2018

The ‘Menu From Hell’ Paradoxes in physics have a way of clarifying key issues.

From Scientific American • Dec. 21, 2012

Works by photographer Rajiv Kapoor illustrate life amid conflict in Jerusalem and the West Bank in "Paradoxes of Living on Holy Land."

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2011

Paradoxes seemed to emerge everywhere if you could travel at the speed of light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan