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When the war in Syria was recently declared decisively over, there were few correspondents or witnesses to turn to for a credible look at exactly what happened during eight years of conflict. The ques

The variables and problems in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial sentience. A. S. Deller Apr 24 Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent a Tesla Roadster into space in February 2018. It will travel almost 250 million miles into space before shifting into an orbit around the Sun.…

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Michael and Ben were talking about a new study they’d read at The Atlantic about how no one is happy with the amount of money they have, up and down the scale. The conclusion of the piece is that pret

Probabilistic thinking is essentially trying to estimate, using some tools of math and logic, the likelihood of any specific outcome coming to pass. It is one of the best tools we have to improve the

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Social psychologist Keith Payne says we have a bias toward comparing ourselves to people who have more than us, rather than those who have less. Marcus Butt/Getty Images/Ikon Images When Keith Payne w

Speaking at the event at London’s Design Museum, Yentob said films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr Strangelove foresaw the role technology has come to play in our lives. Yentob, 72, said Kubrick’

Spend More Time With The Lord Posted: January 19, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: #writings | The Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, Robert Barron, has a terrific YouTube channel were he preaches The Gospel and shares his thoughts on all kinds of subjects. If you’re into that sort of thing it’s…

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Note to readers: call this a two-part preface to Untitledgate . Chapter One, coming soon, is about the origins of the investigation, but I thought it made sense to go through the Mueller report now th

WATCH: Eyewitness Don Draper describes the terrifying Sunnyvale crash that injured eight pedestrians. Click here if you’re unable to view the video or photo gallery on your mobile device. SUNNYVALE —

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After what you could reasonably call the most disastrous 2018 imaginable, Kanye West is suddenly a good guy again and performing gospel standards at Coachella. How was Sunday Service, the quasi-sermon

Reid Hoffman is one of the legends of Silicon Valley, having been part of two of the most influential tech companies: PayPal and LinkedIn. His start in business came much earlier, however, for as a pr

Nearly everyone's heard about Climategate, a scandal said to prove that climate scientists deceptively changed temperature data as part of a scheme to hoax the world into thinking global warming is re

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google — but often don’t

NBC News Caught Faking Photo Of Baby Infected With Measles

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The age-old parking enforcement practice of tire-chalking is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, saying it violated the Fourth Amendment’s bar on unreasonable searches. The U.S. Co

Climate activists occupying parts of central London are calling for a citizens’ assembly to steer the course of UK climate policy. Extinction Rebellion has grabbed front pages by disrupting traffic at

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Biologists suspect we’re living through the sixth major mass extinction. Earth has witnessed five mass extinctions when more than 75% of species disappeared. Palaeontologists spot them when species go

The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. By Ivan Katchanovski Spe

(KNX 1070) -- A London-based paramedic is warning people about injuring yourself while stretching your neck. Natalie Kunicki, 23, tells the Daily Mail she was in bed watching movies when she stretched

Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs on Monday announced that the long-term deficit facing the programs was a staggering $59 trillion . As the retirement age population expands relat

Nearly 50 students at Harvard-Westlake School have been recently diagnosed with whooping cough, in an outbreak that has forced school officials to send students home at the first sign of illness. But

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Z oom CEO Eric Yuan cut an unlikely figure as he addressed the cheering throng in the moments before ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq , his bashful grin giving way to a look of focus as he said, “A

Over the course of Uber’s remarkable rise — very significant stumbles along the way notwithstanding — it has been more prudent to defend the company’s valuation than to question it. Look no further th

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Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion. A yard sign in Wellington, Kan., where some parents and students have rebelled against a web-based education program from Summit Learni

The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter operating software than the last. But what if, instead of painstakingly designing and engineering a…