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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The American public’s interest in the rest of the world waxes and wanes depending on how close a crisis is to home.
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The Asian nation—with its big military, nuclear weapons, and ongoing conflict with India—has been a “dangerous state” for the U.S. for some time. We’re only now starting to realize how […]
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A conversation with the editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine.
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It’s possible that there is a tiny, curled-up dimension in every point surrounding us, each too small for us to perceive or comprehend.
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Molecular clouds that communicate with one another may continue to have a type of intelligence in the distant future, but “these bodies that we enjoy are not going to make […]
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If one imagined and described the most logically elegant way to construct a universe, the result wouldn’t resemble ours.
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Inside the Milky Way and every other galaxy there is a giant black hole at the center. Even in early times there were these types of holes, each weighing a […]
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“It is really a high density situation that we call the big bang, but there is really no explosion,” says Freese. “There is no ‘bang.’ There is no singular point.”
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A conversation with the University of Michigan theoretical astrophysicist.
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In order for Europe to pull ahead, it must overcome challenges of confidence and a graying demographic.
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Government information should be made much more freely available.
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How can we keep from destroying information that might be relevant later?
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The unfortunate side effect of information technology: it doesn’t forget, even when our society does.
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A conversation with the Director of the Information Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore
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It can be tough, especially with young kids, because people understand atheism so poorly.
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Magic goes to eleborate lengths to make something look one way that’s really another. Penn and Teller thought it would be funny to do a magic trick that accomplished reality.
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This trick, which they debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1986, put an unexpected twist on Houdini’s classic water tank escape.
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Who needs drugs or alcohol when you have magic? Penn Jillette decided drugs were not for him when he was 14 years old and he saw very smart people abusing […]
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Penn says his tolerance for crazy people “is I think as high a tolerance as you’re ever going to find.”
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The magician explains his libertarian beliefs and why President Obama should be “questioned and beat up.”