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15/06/2019 - 12:42

Before Hawking’s talk, all cosmological origin stories, scientific or theological, had invited the rejoinder, “What happened before that?”... →

08/06/2019 - 11:55

By the middle of the 20th century, most of that industry was gone, and human-driven reforestation efforts had remade the Pripyat region... →

01/06/2019 - 12:14

That we have a conscience at all relates to how evolution has shaped our neurobiology for social living. Thus, we judge what is right or... →

24/05/2019 - 14:30

Now, imagine inhabiting a world without such a numbered timeline for ordering current events, memories and future hopes. For from earliest... →

17/05/2019 - 11:35

Such snobbery is misplaced. Humans are technological animals. Science fiction explores how that power might be used, what sorts of worlds... →

11/05/2019 - 13:21

There’s a concept from philosophy that describes this evolution — it’s called humanity’s expanding moral circle. The circle is the... →

06/05/2019 - 13:10

Yet Vasari’s fabulism is threaded with nuggets from people who knew the polymath. They remembered his love of young men with long curly... →

01/05/2019 - 13:11

The ever-growing fossil record fills in one missing link in the quest for evidence of protohumans, only to expose another. Meanwhile, no... →

21/04/2019 - 20:38

The Roman Empire, for example, was the victim of many ills including overexpansion, climatic change, environmental degradation and poor... →

15/04/2019 - 11:09

For half a decade, Friedman has been working hard, and publicly, to dispel easy narratives about Israel. He rose to attention — and... →

10/04/2019 - 14:26

If the slow-moving mass of radioactive clouds reached Moscow, where a spring storm front was piling up, millions could be harmed. ... →

29/03/2019 - 15:11

Breathing? I thought. That is how I will escape this flirtation with what feels like madness? By breathing? Sat stiffly,... →

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