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15/09/2016 - 12:34

The magnificence of Marx’s mane has clearly long been a major part of his personal brand. It graces his grave in Highgate cemetery and here... →

10/09/2016 - 12:23

This would never happen, and in many respects neither really would Birobidzhan, named for the nearby rivers Bira and Bidzhan. Very few Jews... →

03/09/2016 - 17:16

The Enliels are an amiable, welcoming people that belong to an unknown green-colored race. They greeted the visitors with joy and prepared... →

30/08/2016 - 13:09

Действительно, обуреваемый «вынужденной литературной поденщиной» С.О. Португейс, «будучи творчески плодовит», много писал, меняя псевдонимы... →

27/08/2016 - 13:20

Like many exoplanets, Proxima b was observed indirectly, but convincingly, through its gravitational sway. As the planet orbits, it tugs... →

16/08/2016 - 16:39

Keep going along this curve, and you get to the freaks among freaks—competitors who shatter records and push limits beyond imagination.... →

07/08/2016 - 13:12

Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car? We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →

02/08/2016 - 13:31

“Ghetto” is never strident or even particularly argumentative. Nonetheless, its story repeatedly emphasizes the failures of the apolitical... →

25/07/2016 - 15:54

Many physicists have made peace with the idea of a block universe, arguing that the task of the physicist is to describe how the universe... →

21/07/2016 - 12:58

The only entity that bothered to bring up questions of ethics in the early 1990s was the church, the only carrier of non-authoritarian... →

11/07/2016 - 14:49

The title of your book is The Inevitable. What does that mean, and why did you choose it? It’s sort of slightly controversial because many... →

09/07/2016 - 12:37

Sex is unknown in bacteria – the simplest and most ancient living cells on Earth – that reproduce by simply splitting into two. Evolving... →

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