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Digital tools are pulling us away from fixed texts and back toward fluid, interactive communication.
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“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.”
"Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end."
We first measured G, the gravitational constant, back in the 18th century. As the least well-known fundamental constant, can it be improved?
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“There are at least three very much interrelated misconceptions about trauma right now.”
In this excerpt from "The First Eight," Congressman Jim Clyburn shares the story of Robert Smalls, the man whose audience with Lincoln may have saved the Union army.
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