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24/02/2024 - 15:56

If you search for books on leaders in history, you find a recurring cast of characters staring at you from the covers: Winston Churchill.... →

01/02/2024 - 15:45

The German effort to find and murder every Jew was a vast undertaking encompassing three continents. The Germans and their collaborators... →

22/01/2024 - 16:48

Dystopian fiction can be vitally important. It can contain important warnings: raising alarms on social issues through extrapolating... →

14/01/2024 - 12:00

It may have looked like clunky blocks of circuitry, soldered together by hand in a mass of wires and boxes, but what Cowan was witnessing... →

04/01/2024 - 14:57

But while roughly a third of us plan to make resolutions or set goals for ourselves in 2024, sticking to them is quite another... →

30/12/2023 - 15:47

“There was no defense plan for a surprise attack,” Amir Avivi, a former deputy head of the Gaza Division, told the paper, while former... →

25/12/2023 - 14:41

You might have read it in news headlines in the run up to COP28, the UN climate talks held this year in Dubai, UAE. You might... →

20/12/2023 - 15:57

In the old days, when government was viewed as the sole protagonist of space exploration, this line of argument was fairly straightforward... →

10/12/2023 - 14:36

This is the concept behind mind uploading – the idea that we may one day be able to transition a person from their biological body to a... →

02/12/2023 - 15:37

While we might point to violent video games or sexually explicit films as potentially dangerous and corrupting influences on tender or... →

27/11/2023 - 14:21

Why do we still feel hungry after feasts like Thanksgiving or Christmas? Does overeating “stretch” your stomach, meaning you have more room... →

20/11/2023 - 16:35

In the more than seven decades since they were written, these documents have frequently been ignored. The UN Genocide Convention did not... →

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