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09/04/2018 - 16:58

On the wall is a poster of Bertrand Russell with the quotation: ‘Most people would sooner die than think, and most of them do.’ There is a... →

01/04/2018 - 16:43

Bruno said the universe has no center, and stars are suns, surrounded by planets and moons. Remarkably, he thus outlined large-scale... →

25/03/2018 - 12:17

Classical genetics draws a fundamental distinction between the “genotype” (that is, the set of genes that an individual carries and can... →

20/03/2018 - 12:36

There is much we can learn by reflecting on the stories heard in childhood. Magical characters such as the Pied Piper, the talking frog and... →

16/03/2018 - 13:57

Even ancient classical texts, students have argued, can be dangerous: at Columbia University in New York, student activists demanded that a... →

11/03/2018 - 15:37

Although it’s already well known that we should pace our studies, new research suggests that we should aim for “minimal interference”... →

04/03/2018 - 12:14

That seemed more like a toy for researchers than a way of getting any serious number crunching done. But 70,000 users worldwide have... →

26/02/2018 - 10:47

Drawing extensively on U.S. archival material as well as some Russian, British, French, German, Serbian and Czech sources, Steil tells the... →

22/02/2018 - 10:51

“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central... →

12/02/2018 - 15:42

However, in the East, space is understood a bit differently. In Japan, spaces have meanings prior to any activity that happens within them... →

11/02/2018 - 16:53

Тем не менее, решением израильского правительства установлено, что правом на ношение нагрудного знака участника кампании "Мир Галилее"... →

05/02/2018 - 16:29

Now he has done so. The Pouncer, a hundred-and-forty-five-pound edible glider, with a ten-foot wingspan, is designed to be released from a... →

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