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02/06/2015 - 19:14

Typically, dictatorships – as seen by researchers – have a few other hallmarks, too. Unlike monarchs, who are drawn from a very small pool... →

29/05/2015 - 14:42

Consider what’s happening in Russia, where an elected autocrat presides over a free market shaped by a powerful state apparatus. Similarly... →

24/05/2015 - 14:51

As an American who never made Israel his permanent home, Hasak-Lowy spent a year in Israel after high school, took some Hebrew in college,... →

19/05/2015 - 16:33

FREE-FOR-ALL Computing gets much of the credit for lowering the barriers to entry to space. The modern smartphone is the product of three-... →

15/05/2015 - 15:24

Since official bilateral ties were established on May 12, 1965, there wasn’t a specific catalyzing moment that made the alliance so strong... →

10/05/2015 - 13:14

The first steps to answering these questions were taken almost a century ago, at the height of the American Jazz Age. At the time, the new-... →

01/05/2015 - 12:35

Scholem identified the “German-Jewish symbiosis,” or the emancipation of Jews in Europe, as an illusion doomed to fail. Already in the... →

27/04/2015 - 12:47

What is information? For the most of my life, I have earned my living as a computer vision professional busy with Remote sensing and... →

26/04/2015 - 17:26

CAIRO – CONGESTION Egypt’s capital is home to more than 18.5 million people, and for nearly 10 years, city planners have openly... →

22/04/2015 - 15:41

There is something deceptive about the image of Grinstein, who was close to the top of the political echelon before he was 30 and studied... →

18/04/2015 - 14:03

We walk past a Kurzweil music synthesiser, a picture of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, before arriving in his living room in... →

12/04/2015 - 12:29

In July, after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, Gontar surveyed the internet, picking up shards of pro-... →

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