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16/06/2014 - 11:56

Without such solutions, an estimated $57 trillion of infrastructure investment would be needed in 2013-2030, just to keep pace with GDP... →

10/06/2014 - 11:17

The seething, bloodthirsty hatred of the USA and her values is just a palpable in Russia today as it ever was in the USSR. In an amazing... →

04/06/2014 - 11:53

The other interesting feature of capital is that it is accumulated through savings. A person or country that saves 100 units of income... →

30/05/2014 - 10:34

Still, today’s economic elite is very different from that of the nineteenth century, isn’t it? Back then, great wealth tended to be... →

22/05/2014 - 15:13

Get out of here. I have a hundred thousand things I am concerned about at this exact moment. Do I seriously need to add to that a... →

18/05/2014 - 12:03

Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. That said, it is hard to see anything in the new... →

16/05/2014 - 11:35

In the 1730s, just after turning forty, Swedenborg took up neuroanatomy. Instead of actually dissecting brains, though, he got himself a... →

11/05/2014 - 14:53

Gepshtein sees some of the most disagreeable traits of entrenched movie technology in today’s blockbuster action movies. In these films,... →

04/05/2014 - 12:13

Sometimes it’s the seemingly weird ideas that come true—thanks, in part, to science fiction’s capacity to spark an imaginative fire in... →

29/04/2014 - 18:36

Dekel’s book examines the Holocaust Memorial as an example of German remembrance efforts after Germany’s reunification and analyzes the... →

18/04/2014 - 18:07

I have often written here about the changes taking place in the Middle East. Strategically speaking, the immediate threats to Israel have... →

12/04/2014 - 14:19

In the era of capitalism, many people measure themselves, or are measured, according to the number of sexual partners they have had. Sex,... →

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