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26/09/2014 - 13:39

Al-Monitor: “Suspender Tuesdays” is a cute idea, but many seniors in Israel are among the country’s poorest population. Orbach: It is... →

25/09/2014 - 16:27

Успех праворадикальной партии Всеукраинское объединение «Свобода» на парламентских выборах в конце 2012 г. (на причинах которого я вкратце... →

20/09/2014 - 14:10

In 1900, about 4 percent of the U.S. population was older than 65. Today, 90 percent of all babies born in the developed world will live... →

16/09/2014 - 13:59

Which brings us back to the confusion between cans and pedestrians. When an autonomous car scans a person with its forward-facing radar,... →

11/09/2014 - 17:20

Youth unemployment in the grouping’s advanced economies remains at historic highs. By 2012 the portion of long-term jobless on unemployment... →

06/09/2014 - 13:37

LABOR PAINS In the future, ideas will be the real scarce inputs -- scarcer than both labor and capital. Turn over your iPhone and you can... →

31/08/2014 - 15:15

HOW ASSIMILATION WORKS The successful assimilation of earlier immigrants is often misunderstood. It’s true that they managed to achieve... →

25/08/2014 - 15:52

At the same time, chaos has its advantages. On a behavioral level, the arms race between predator and prey has wired erratic strategies... →

19/08/2014 - 16:20

Overinvestment also implies bust, though. The question of which moment marks the peak has been raised repeatedly: at the time of corporate... →

14/08/2014 - 19:20

The first attempted examinations of the connection between genius and insanity were largely anecdotal. In his 1891 book, The Man of Genius... →

09/08/2014 - 12:36

By the 1700s, astronomers observing sunspots hit upon an idea: The sun was a regular old terrestrial planet like ours that just happened to... →

31/07/2014 - 22:39

In the jargon it's an "Anthropocene defaunation," or sixth mass extinction, and one caused by humans. Scientists can't be sure of the... →

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