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02/07/2014 - 15:49

Honey trap The bots most likely to fool us employ colourful trickery, explains Richard Wallace of Pandorabots, which makes chatbots for... →

27/06/2014 - 14:35

“Such a conversion, even though it’s a wonderful story, never happened,” Stampfer said. Stampfer, an expert in Jewish history, analyzed... →

22/06/2014 - 15:19

But let’s go back to Slava. When we first meet Fishman’s (sort-of) anti-hero, he is perched precariously between two incompatible worlds.... →

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... →

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