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03/11/2020 - 15:35

That’s pretty much the position of a young child when she first encounters language. In fact, she would seem to be in an even more... →

24/10/2020 - 12:54

If so, the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time—much like... →

14/10/2020 - 15:27

I used to have nightmares, right before graduation, about having to redo it all, and would wake up in sweat and agony. I would never, ever... →

02/10/2020 - 13:33

The case sparked intense public controversy. Le Monde, typical of much of the French media, devoted 178 articles in the first half of... →

22/09/2020 - 12:06

When his friends came to visit, they would see him with one leg in a Hoffmann device and the other suspended from the ceiling,... →

10/09/2020 - 13:53

The vast majority of those who died in history’s deadliest war were civilians, including 6 million Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps... →

03/09/2020 - 12:18

When Sharansky disputed the claim, Netanyahu explained: “They love an Israel that exists in their imaginations. But the real Israel, which... →

26/08/2020 - 11:22

Even within a single person, aging unfolds at different rates in different tissues, sometimes striking the liver before the heart or kidney... →

19/08/2020 - 14:21

These findings weren't new. Seven previous studies had already shown that vitamins increased the risk of cancer and heart disease and... →

13/08/2020 - 17:06

Policymakers and the public at large understand the importance of innovation. What is less well appreciated is the degree to which the... →

13/08/2020 - 16:55

But there’s no need to restrict ourselves to doing things the way we’re doing them right now. With the right technology, we could vastly... →

08/08/2020 - 11:22

It wasn’t merely billions of years of life surviving, thriving, and filling every ecological niche possible on our planet that brought us... →

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