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Reality check

Nature volume 404, page 229 (2000)Cite this article

Do you sometimes get the feeling that everything's too bad to be true?

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  1. David Brin is a physicist and author whose novels include The Postman, Startide Rising and Foundation's Triumph, and whose nonfiction includes The Transparent Society.

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Brin, D. Reality check. Nature 404, 229 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35005182

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