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23/10/2017 - 13:56

I’m glad I did. Harari’s new book is as challenging and readable as Sapiens. Rather than looking back, as Sapiens does, it... →

17/10/2017 - 16:22

Terry Gross: Let's talk briefly about the ways Russia has been interfering in Ukraine for the past couple of years. Maybe you can... →

06/10/2017 - 16:14

Some of the answers to art’s mysteries can be found in the realm of science. Art is considered the domain of the heart, but its... →

01/10/2017 - 18:17

But Ms. Duperre, a lifelong resident of the once-thriving factory town an hour south of Boston, went from victim of the digital revolution... →

26/09/2017 - 16:32

Obsession with novelty has been called “neophilia.” The term was used as early as 1965 in a story by J.D. Salinger, who was apparently wary... →

21/09/2017 - 12:47

Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I have spent time with bottlenose dolphins, for instance, in many different... →

15/09/2017 - 11:26

The catalyst for this vilification was the 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, Malthus—a curly haired, 32-year-... →

08/09/2017 - 11:36

What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes... →

05/09/2017 - 12:27

Наиболее яркая личность из этой когорты людей – Меир Дизенгоф (первоначально Меер Янкелевич, впоследствии Мирон Яковлевич Дизенгоф),... →

03/09/2017 - 14:55

Such collapses have occurred many times in human history, and no civilisation, no matter how seemingly great, is immune to the... →

26/08/2017 - 15:02

Please use the sharing tools found via the email icon at the top of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T... →

20/08/2017 - 12:41

Does Killer deserve more blame – that is, resentment and indignation – than Merely Reckless? Or, do Killer and Merely Reckless deserve the... →

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