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31/08/2019 - 12:53

In the early years of the aids epidemic, there were all kinds of theories about what was causing it: toxicity from drug use... →

25/08/2019 - 12:56

A lapsed Catholic with an interest in many religions, Borges (1899-1986) was particularly fascinated by Judaism, especially Kabbalah, and... →

20/08/2019 - 12:20

It’s not a wholly false perception, but the notion of China as a fortress state, impervious to foreign influence, is something of a... →

13/08/2019 - 20:06

In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change. There are, of... →

07/08/2019 - 12:17

Did you authorize the changes that were made to the Russian translation of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century”? I authorized some changes... →

02/08/2019 - 13:14

There are few corners of scientific progress that are not tainted at some point in their history by immoral or unethical behaviour. Physics... →

27/07/2019 - 12:01

This became clear to Franz when his teachers in Berlin cast stealthily malicious glances at him when Jewish characters — such as Shylock in... →

20/07/2019 - 13:06

Gould reckoned that if time was rewound, then evolution would drive life down a completely different path and humans would never re-evolve... →

14/07/2019 - 12:49

Trump immediately ordered an attack on military targets in Iran, but called it off at the last moment, saying it would cause a... →

09/07/2019 - 11:56

In the Guardian, Zimler writes of the conversation with a friend in which he learned of the trouble: “‘They asked me if you were... →

02/07/2019 - 11:11

Two decades ago psychologists came up with the now infamous “dark triad” of personality traits to understand why some people... →

25/06/2019 - 17:51

The boarding school where I was a pupil in the 1990s provided the perfect microcosm for anyone interested in how “survival of the fittest”... →

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