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11/11/2022 - 13:14

“I think it was just the presumption that they were wives and mothers, and incredibly glamorous, and there was not much more to them,” said... →

06/11/2022 - 12:43

The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has gained such popularity, in part, because it offers a fig leaf of scientific probity. Radiation... →

28/10/2022 - 13:18

In ‘The Worst Crime of All’, he justified why aggressive wars were the charter’s supreme crime: because all others – crimes against... →

22/10/2022 - 15:00

For students of the generally underappreciated (and mostly unsuccessful) German resistance, Tom Dunkel’s “White Knights in the Black... →

15/10/2022 - 12:17

If he is right about his discovery, the history books will have to be rewritten in order to credit the Jewish people with a significant... →

09/10/2022 - 14:44

A number of scientists, philosophers and technology experts at international educational institutions published an article in which they... →

04/10/2022 - 13:46

If life in the 1930s was marked by a Great Depression, and the 2010s by a Great Recession, one might say our current decade is marked by a... →

27/09/2022 - 14:05

These sketchy biographical details are almost all that we know of the life of the philosopher Epictetus, born around AD55. While some of... →

20/09/2022 - 17:17

Her first order of business was to help him regain weight and health, but he had no interest in food after being deprived of it for so long... →

14/09/2022 - 12:47

More than 2,000 years ago, in a temple in the city of Borsippa in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq, a student was... →

07/09/2022 - 11:39

Wham, like the protests he’s become known for, is quiet and animated by a kind of contained mischief. Born and raised in Singapore, he has... →

27/08/2022 - 14:17

Such a belief, sometimes driven by antisemitism and sometimes by a general feeling of literary displacement and career frustration, was... →

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