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AddThe 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.
Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
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
Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.
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…
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.
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…
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
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?
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.
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture