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AddA year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…
The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks
Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
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Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes
S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …