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18/12/2022 - 13:58

Given what is often thought to be the “mathematicality” of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an... →

09/12/2022 - 13:52

Regular readers of Aeon+Psyche will be familiar with the dilemma that such a discovery poses: the powerful influence of this great mind,... →

04/12/2022 - 15:10

In 2005, the writer Simon Garfield published a book of extracts from the diaries of a selection of ordinary British citizens,... →

26/11/2022 - 14:40

It's January 2004 and Nasa is about to land on Mars, twice. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are scheduled to arrive on opposite... →

21/11/2022 - 13:49

One of his proudest inventions was a homemade burglar alarm that alerted him whenever his parents entered his room. He used a microscope to... →

11/11/2022 - 13:14

“I think it was just the presumption that they were wives and mothers, and incredibly glamorous, and there was not much more to them,” said... →

06/11/2022 - 12:43

The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has gained such popularity, in part, because it offers a fig leaf of scientific probity. Radiation... →

28/10/2022 - 13:18

In ‘The Worst Crime of All’, he justified why aggressive wars were the charter’s supreme crime: because all others – crimes against... →

22/10/2022 - 15:00

For students of the generally underappreciated (and mostly unsuccessful) German resistance, Tom Dunkel’s “White Knights in the Black... →

15/10/2022 - 12:17

If he is right about his discovery, the history books will have to be rewritten in order to credit the Jewish people with a significant... →

09/10/2022 - 14:44

A number of scientists, philosophers and technology experts at international educational institutions published an article in which they... →

04/10/2022 - 13:46

If life in the 1930s was marked by a Great Depression, and the 2010s by a Great Recession, one might say our current decade is marked by a... →

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