New books and articles

24/04/2016 - 13:32

The theory was renovated in the 1960s by the historian Lev Gumilev (1912-1992). Gumilev — the son of two famous Russian poets, Anna... →

19/04/2016 - 14:22

Breaking the taboo would entail coping with a different collective memory, as well as recognizing that Nazism was much more than the enemy... →

12/04/2016 - 13:00

In an attempt to explain why so many Jewish leaders were being fired, arrested or executed between 1948 and 1953, the articles were filled... →

04/04/2016 - 13:11

Progress in the theory of computation suggests that sentience and intelligence likely require quadrillions of primitive “circuit” elements... →

31/03/2016 - 14:30

There is also a deeper message laid bare within our futurist projections. Our notions about the emergence of intelligent machines expose... →

27/03/2016 - 16:15

The first Maya sites were built during the first millennium BC, and the civilisation reached its height around AD600. (In the chronology of... →

22/03/2016 - 16:45

When the Universe as we know it — full of matter and radiation — began, it began with a few strange properties that didn’t necessarily have... →

17/03/2016 - 15:53

That generation expected to have job security, to marry young, to buy a house – perhaps a summer house, too – and finally retire with... →

12/03/2016 - 13:49

Today, every sovereign nation in the world has a protected-area system of some kind. All together the reserves number about 161,000 on land... →

07/03/2016 - 13:46

Yet the actual story of Mars is weirder, grander, and in some ways more terrifying than any of the fictions that humans have spun. Although... →

01/03/2016 - 13:30

These are all fictional tales, to be sure, and in each the leaders who held the power used conspicuous forms of control that at least a few... →

25/02/2016 - 18:11

This raises a question, though. If humans rely so much on a culturally accumulated body of knowledge that they access by imitating others,... →

You are here