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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,... →

19/02/2016 - 17:04

The urgency to write what he had witnessed began with some scribbling in the camp, which he entered in 1944 and where he remained for the... →

14/02/2016 - 15:44

Altered Humans Significant physical alterations have seemed largely impossible until very recently. Even breakthroughs in genetics hint at... →

11/02/2016 - 19:54

Первые литературные опыты приходятся на время его сотрудничества в «Южном обозрении», которое редактировал будущий член кадетского ЦК А.С.... →

06/02/2016 - 16:05

The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →

31/01/2016 - 12:38

In The Lonely Crowd, the American sociologist David Riesman identified three broad cultural types: tradition-directed cultures that look to... →

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