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Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
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A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.
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.
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
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.
S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
Dr. Richard Harris, aka ‘Dr. Harry,’ and the Wetmules made the first reported hydrogen (H2) rebreather dive to a depth of 230m/751 ft, in The Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand.