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Economist Tim Harford on what prison camps can teach you about the economy.
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Michio Kaku on why Hollywood needs to make better aliens.
John Davies of the Intel World Ahead Program on increasing access to technology.
Tony Blair speaks before his keynote at the Global Education and Skills Conference,
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Michael Schatz on autism and genetics.
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In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself.
Peter Singer on the ethics of how drones are like viruses and vice-versa.
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One day, your personality, your memories, who you are, the essence of your soul may be incorporated on a disc as pure information. Even if you die your consciousness, in […]
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Tom Stewart on the value of a much abused term.
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Our smartphones and other gadgets are just "the warm up acts" of the second machine age.
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One of the most famous branches in plant’s evolution is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms, which puzzled Darwin.
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Math is not the opposite of art and poetry. In fact, every formula is a formula of love.
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James Gleick ponders the paradox in information theory that since information is based on surprise, it is also chaotic and in many cases devoid of meaning.
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Inevitably drug laws will be disproportionately enforced against the poor, younger and darker-skinned members of society.
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Rick Smolan: I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
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Despite the misgivings of the clergy, Bach’s church cantatas and Passions are full of drama, internalizing and dramatizing “the situation of the individual believer, spectator or hearer.”
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It was an amazing discovery that we’re all related, but it was not obvious. It’s not obvious that I’m related to a strawberry, but I am.