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The Learning Curve
Every era believes it is enlightened. Old books teach us otherwise.
Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.
Kevin Dickinson
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Life
The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it
It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.
Andrew Hessel
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Mini Philosophy
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If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
Jonny Thomson
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Thinking
5 great thinkers who rejected their own ideas
Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost.
Shai Tubali
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Books
The last witnesses: Preserving the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In the Embers series, historian M.G. Sheftall shares the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s last survivors and reveals why their testimony must endure.
Kevin Dickinson
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