“It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
In 1934, HG Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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In 1934, HG Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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HG Wells: “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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July 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
In 1934, HG Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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In 1934, HG Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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Beauty standards are always shaped by cultural movements, which rest on the slow, grinding tectonics of politics and economics. The muscular male ideal we recognize today wasn’t always the pinnacle of male attractiveness.
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Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
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April 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Beauty standards are always shaped by cultural movements, which rest on the slow, grinding tectonics of politics and economics. The muscular male ideal we recognize today wasn’t always the pinnacle of male attractiveness.
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Many of Musk's ideas about governance and economics resemble those championed by his grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a leader of the political movement known as technocracy. Technocrats proposed replacing democratically government with an army of scientists and engineers
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Opinion | The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk (Gift Article)
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Many of Musk's ideas about governance and economics resemble those championed by his grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a leader of the political movement known as technocracy. Technocrats proposed replacing democratically government with an army of scientists and engineers
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Our brains do not just passively perceive the world—they construct it. Research shows that imagined and real experiences can produce strikingly similar neural activity, raising deep questions about the nature of reality itself. iai.tv/articles/the...
The reality gap | Nadine Dijkstra, Omari Edwards
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March 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Our brains do not just passively perceive the world—they construct it. Research shows that imagined and real experiences can produce strikingly similar neural activity, raising deep questions about the nature of reality itself. iai.tv/articles/the...
Trump vs. Europe: America Is Now an Adversary www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Meinung: Trump vs. Europe: America Is Now an Adversary
Donald Trump has jettisoned the existing world order and the U.S. is backing away from decades-old alliances. Europe has no choice but to fend for itself.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Trump vs. Europe: America Is Now an Adversary www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Crowds reach a critical point where individual movement is overtaken by a collective dynamic, causing the mass to adhere to Newton’s third law.
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How the physic laws of the San Fermín crowds could prevent stampedes
Crowds reach a critical point where individual movement is overtaken by a collective dynamic, causing the mass to adhere to Newton’s third law
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February 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Crowds reach a critical point where individual movement is overtaken by a collective dynamic, causing the mass to adhere to Newton’s third law.
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Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it.
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A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI
Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it.
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From overreliance on China to the growing involvement of civilians, the extensive use of drones in the Ukraine war offers crucial lessons for future conflicts
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Drones in Ukraine: Four lessons for the West
From overreliance on China to the growing involvement of civilians, the extensive use of drones in the Ukraine war offers crucial lessons for future conflicts
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January 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
From overreliance on China to the growing involvement of civilians, the extensive use of drones in the Ukraine war offers crucial lessons for future conflicts
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One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia
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One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia
The Darién Gap between South and Central America is exceedingly dangerous, but hundreds of thousands of migrants try their luck every year in an effort to reach the U.S. Now, a drug cartel has turned ...
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January 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia
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We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results:
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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time
We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le G...
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December 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM
We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results:
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Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous. In 50m years it spawned dinosaurs, seafood, geopolitics—and our distant ancestors.
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Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous
In 50m years it spawned dinosaurs, seafood, geopolitics—and our distant ancestors
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December 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous. In 50m years it spawned dinosaurs, seafood, geopolitics—and our distant ancestors.
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To appreciate the Cold War setting of Star Trek, you need only to understand that the Earth-led United Federation of Planets was NATO. The bad guys, standing in for the Soviet Union, were the Klingons, whose empire was a brutal and aggressive dictatorship. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Star Trek’s Cold War
While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.
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December 26, 2024 at 11:27 PM
To appreciate the Cold War setting of Star Trek, you need only to understand that the Earth-led United Federation of Planets was NATO. The bad guys, standing in for the Soviet Union, were the Klingons, whose empire was a brutal and aggressive dictatorship. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Machine translation is almost a solved problem. But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task.
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Machine translation is almost a solved problem
But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task
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December 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Machine translation is almost a solved problem. But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task.
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Russia’s years-long effort to position itself as an alternative security guarantor has unraveled in just a matter of days. nationalinterest.org/feature/assa...
Assad’s Collapse Is A Blow To Russia’s Middle East Strategy
Putin made three crucial miscalculations that could rupture Russia’s web of regional influence.
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December 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Russia’s years-long effort to position itself as an alternative security guarantor has unraveled in just a matter of days. nationalinterest.org/feature/assa...
It’s not the first time a criminal has stirred public fascination, but the unique combination of factors in this case has transformed the young man arrested for murdering an American insurance magnate into an antihero.
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In love with a killer: How the internet became obsessed with Luigi Mangione
It’s not the first time a criminal has stirred public fascination, but the unique combination of factors in this case has transformed the young man arrested for murdering an American insurance magnate...
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December 12, 2024 at 10:39 PM
It’s not the first time a criminal has stirred public fascination, but the unique combination of factors in this case has transformed the young man arrested for murdering an American insurance magnate into an antihero.
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english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-...
Daughter of Iranian Activist Jamshid Sharmahd: "It Is a Terrorist Regime, Not a State" www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Daughter of Iranian Activist Jamshid Sharmahd: "It Is a Terrorist Regime, Not a State"
The German-Iranian regime critic Jamshid Sharmahd was kidnapped in Dubai and sentenced to death in Tehran. He died in late October. In an interview, his daughter Gazelle, 41, expresses sharp criticism...
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December 12, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Daughter of Iranian Activist Jamshid Sharmahd: "It Is a Terrorist Regime, Not a State" www.spiegel.de/internationa...
China’s Nuclear Rise nationalinterest.org/feature/chin...
China’s Nuclear Rise
Could Russia and China team up to enhance their joint nuclear threat against the United States and its allies?
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November 24, 2024 at 8:50 PM
China’s Nuclear Rise nationalinterest.org/feature/chin...
How the AfD Became the Long Arm of Russia and China www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Alternative for Germany (AfD): How the far-right party became the Long Arm of Russia and China
The far-right AfD presents itself as a patriotic party, but revelations about possible monetary payments from Russia and a suspected Chinese spy have exposed its members as traitors to their country. ...
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May 4, 2024 at 1:24 AM
How the AfD Became the Long Arm of Russia and China www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
Grok's selling point is real-time access to news, but Motherboard found that it generated inaccurate information about Israel-Palestine and lent credence to conspiracy theories.
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December 9, 2023 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
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Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives
Everything seems profound on psychedelics. Scientists are starting to ask why.
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December 9, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives www.vox.com/future-perfe...
December 8, 2023 at 11:11 PM
OpenAI’s board fired its CEO Sam Altman. Days later, Altman effectively fired OpenAI’s board.
To comprehend this bizarre corporate farce, you must understand that many of America’s top AI researchers believe that their work will plausibly kill us all.
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To comprehend this bizarre corporate farce, you must understand that many of America’s top AI researchers believe that their work will plausibly kill us all.
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OpenAI Was Never Going to Save Us From the Robot Apocalypse
The idea that a single nonprofit could ensure that AI was developed at a “safe” speed never made any sense.
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November 27, 2023 at 9:07 PM
OpenAI’s board fired its CEO Sam Altman. Days later, Altman effectively fired OpenAI’s board.
To comprehend this bizarre corporate farce, you must understand that many of America’s top AI researchers believe that their work will plausibly kill us all.
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To comprehend this bizarre corporate farce, you must understand that many of America’s top AI researchers believe that their work will plausibly kill us all.
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Since the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been more stable than Kosovo. But the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the imminent presidential elections in Serbia have all contributed to an atmosphere of mounting ethnic tension in the country.
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How Gaza and Ukraine are fuelling border tensions in Bosnia
The recent conflicts have reinforced opposing loyalties in a country already scarred by conflict
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November 27, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Since the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been more stable than Kosovo. But the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the imminent presidential elections in Serbia have all contributed to an atmosphere of mounting ethnic tension in the country.
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Further escalations in Kosovo will also invite chaos in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In October, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik even emphasized that Serbs should “form a single state,” consisting of Serbia, Republika Srpska, and Montenegro.
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Russia’s Second Front in Europe
The West must stop Putin from provoking conflict in the Balkans.
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November 27, 2023 at 1:10 AM
Further escalations in Kosovo will also invite chaos in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In October, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik even emphasized that Serbs should “form a single state,” consisting of Serbia, Republika Srpska, and Montenegro.
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Weibo and other major social platforms in China now require popular users to reveal their real names to the public. Some influencers are culling their followers to remain under the radar, while others say they'll quit social media.
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The end of anonymity on Chinese social media
Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
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November 24, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Weibo and other major social platforms in China now require popular users to reveal their real names to the public. Some influencers are culling their followers to remain under the radar, while others say they'll quit social media.
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