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03/11/2018 - 12:41

Martin Rees, the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal, and co-founder of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk, warned in the report... →

28/10/2018 - 14:23

The talking bot can supposedly identify joy, sadness, anger, and surprise and determine whether a person is in a good or bad mood—abilities... →

23/10/2018 - 16:58

More than four decades later, the report’s main conclusions are still valid, according to a group of independent researchers who have... →

16/10/2018 - 12:55

My colleague, who’d come out of a difficult bout of unemployment, simply could not believe that this justified his salary. It took him a... →

08/10/2018 - 13:50

The classic aridity of the Middle East is evident almost everywhere in Israel at this time of year. Both the flora and the fauna and the... →

02/10/2018 - 16:27

Now, in her newest book, she includes a character whose obsessive anti-Zionism morphs into anti-Semitism. “Lethal White,” the fourth series... →

29/09/2018 - 15:22

Rojas-Berscia is a twenty-seven-year-old Peruvian with a baby face and spiky dark hair. A friend had given him a new pair of earrings,... →

24/09/2018 - 11:28

In his fascinating new book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting... →

20/09/2018 - 14:14

Нисколько не умаляя многих достоинств, присущих молдавскому народу, справедливости ради, солидаризуясь с известным отечественным историком... →

18/09/2018 - 16:18

Daily Dilemmas You might find yourself one day in a restaurant with friends and, feeling a little adventurous, you order a plate of... →

13/09/2018 - 13:17

On a hastily built stage before the busy horse market of Strasbourg, scores of people dance to pipes, drums, and horns. The July sun beats... →

06/09/2018 - 13:36

Protected by the constitution’s First Amendment, they held public rallies, paraded through the streets in their uniforms carrying Nazi... →

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