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Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.
Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?
DNA tests and organizations such as 23andMe, DNAConnect, GEDmatch, and Nanchang Project are reuniting parents and children separated by China's one-child policy, Barbara Demick reports.
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
Anna Funder
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.
I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson