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Getting to close to a black hole is a nightmare waiting to happen.
We’d never flown past or imaged a small, isolated Kuiper belt object before. Here’s what we know so far. As 2018 ended and 2019 began, NASA’s New Horizons flew past its […]
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Hollywood's notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones.
Philosophers and practical ethicists might gain something from considering the Overton window of political possibilities.
Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]
Classicist Edith Hall reminds us that Aristotle's "virtue ethics" was a sophisticated, subtle approach to the pursuit of lifelong happiness a couple millennia before Oprah thought of inviting us to live our best life.
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Dear millennials. Ask for a raise. Every single year.
"It is unthinkable in this day and time that the law requires a sex-change operation to change gender."