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15/08/2015 - 12:59

So rather than flee, she decided to immerse herself in the thrill of the chase. “All fear had departed; the comfortable feeling of great... →

10/08/2015 - 11:31

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

05/08/2015 - 14:06

Some critics have incorrectly labeled “Alexandrian Summer” as fictionalized autobiography. The novel is certainly self-referential in that... →

31/07/2015 - 14:06

Not surprisingly, this has proved controversial. Human sexuality and reproduction are matters of biology, but they’re much more than that,... →

26/07/2015 - 17:35

In this same essay, Vargas Llosa lays down some key definitions. He does not approve of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s... →

Putinism

21/07/2015 - 20:00

This admiration contains clues to Mr. Putin’s own, somewhat enigmatic philosophy, the venerable historian Walter Laqueur writes in “... →

11/07/2015 - 20:29

It might be that Rousseau is an extreme case, but suffice it to say, there is no end to the hypocrisy of people who tell other people how... →

05/07/2015 - 11:20

What, then, explains the religiosity of American politics? Kruse traces its origins back to the 1930s. Conservative business leaders had... →

28/06/2015 - 13:49

In the financial sphere the Bretton Woods institutions—the IMF and the World Bank—have lost their monopoly position. Under Chinese... →

21/06/2015 - 12:44

The next year, his young son reissued Magna Carta, without some of the clauses. It was reissued several times more in the 13th century —... →

12/06/2015 - 16:58

DeepMind burst into the limelight last year when it published a paper in Nature that showed how a computer could be programmed to teach... →

07/06/2015 - 13:42

The multitude of planetary systems seems to be yet another fact of our cosmic inconsequence, in which our corner of the universe is just... →

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