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21/09/2017 - 12:47

Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I have spent time with bottlenose dolphins, for instance, in many different... →

15/09/2017 - 11:26

The catalyst for this vilification was the 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, Malthus—a curly haired, 32-year-... →

08/09/2017 - 11:36

What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes... →

05/09/2017 - 12:27

Наиболее яркая личность из этой когорты людей – Меир Дизенгоф (первоначально Меер Янкелевич, впоследствии Мирон Яковлевич Дизенгоф),... →

03/09/2017 - 14:55

Such collapses have occurred many times in human history, and no civilisation, no matter how seemingly great, is immune to the... →

26/08/2017 - 15:02

Please use the sharing tools found via the email icon at the top of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T... →

20/08/2017 - 12:41

Does Killer deserve more blame – that is, resentment and indignation – than Merely Reckless? Or, do Killer and Merely Reckless deserve the... →

15/08/2017 - 19:08

This is the tyranny of sleep. Every animal on the planet is a junkie hooked on its restorative charms. Scientists have shown that if you... →

07/08/2017 - 10:50

The gulag, as the Soviet Union’s Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Labor Settlements was better known, may have been... →

30/07/2017 - 10:55

Around the same time, the then president Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ programme for elementary and high schools in... →

23/07/2017 - 13:14

My point is that it’s not easy at all; no, it’s not easy. My point is that it is not possible to imagine a world without other worlds.... →

16/07/2017 - 10:23

Великий математик, отец кибернетики, Норберт Винер сказал по этому поводу когда-то так: «Информация - это информация, не материя и не... →

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