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Posted Apr 29, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Why Only Art Can Save Us: An Interview with Santiago Zabala
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Leonardo Franceschini in Arcade: Q: Recently Donald and Melania Trump requested a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim, but the museum responded with a counteroffer, Maurizio Cattelan’s America, a gold toilet. I wonder if your book, which also features... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Cell by Cell, Scientists Map the Genetic Steps as Eggs Become Animals
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Jordana Cepelewicz in Quanta: A fertilized egg divides first into two cells, then four, then eight and so on. Meanwhile, those cells progress from undifferentiated blobs in a cluster to more diverse identities associated with heart, brain, muscle, blood, bone... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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The Islamic State’s Lingering Legacy among Young Men from the Mosul Area
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Scott Atran, Hoshang Waziri, Ángel Gomez, Hammad Sheikh, Lucia Lopez-Rodriguez, Charles Rogan, and Richard Davis at the Combating Terrorism Center: From July to October 2017, the authors conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews, including evaluation on a series of psychological measures, with... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Where the wild tales are: how stories teach kids to nurture nature
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S. F. Said in Nature: Today’s children will face huge environmental challenges, from climate change to oceanic pollution. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, for instance, has noted that nearly one-quarter of mammals are globally threatened or extinct. In... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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A flying Tesla Roadster and the future of flying cars
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Posted Apr 28, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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The History of the Shariʿa
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Mohammad Fadel in Lapham's Quarterly: What is shariʿa? It is often translated as “Islamic law,” as if it represented the law in its entirety. It is also commonly thought to be a rigid set of practices and punishments inherited directly... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died
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Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic: Once upon a time, there was a city so dazzling and kaleidoscopic, so braided and water-rimmed, that it was often compared to a single living body. It clustered around a glimmering emerald spine, which astronauts... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Leaving Herland
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Nora Caplan-Bricker in The Point: Imagine a world without men. Imagine it occurred as a natural experiment. Imagine, for example, a valley cupped by high mountains, accessible by only a single, narrow pass. Imagine that, thousands of years ago, the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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The role of regulation in the current cryptocurrency landscape
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Posted Apr 27, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Did Neanderthals Go Extinct Because of the Size of Their Brains?
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George Dvorsky in Gizmodo: Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to date, offering new insights into the social and cognitive abilities of these extinct humans. But as to whether these... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Hisham Matar: International literature is hugely underrated, while English books are often overrated
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The British-Libyan writer on an uncensored Arabian Nights, why Proust makes you feel smarter – and the diaries of a pianist that changed his life. Hisham Matar in The Guardian: The book I am currently reading I have been reading... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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If Solar And Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive?
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Michael Shellenberger in Forbes: Over the last year, the media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines. People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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The Iran Regime-Change Crew Is Back
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Vali Nasr in The Atlantic: Among the most strident critics of the nuclear deal with Iran are those who believe it furthers the survival of its leadership. By throwing Iran’s rulers an economic lifeline, they believe, the deal is an... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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DO WE EVEN NEED MEN?
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John Launer in Literary Hub: Why do males exist? If you learned biology at school, your teachers will probably have told you it was because combining genes from different individuals—one male and one female—increases variation in a species, and it... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Robert Reich on Universal Basic Income
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Posted Apr 26, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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The only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick
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Skye C Cleary and Massimo Pigliucci in Aeon: A strange thing is happening in modern philosophy: many philosophers don’t seem to believe that there is such a thing as human nature. What makes this strange is that, not only does... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
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Michael Jordan: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the current era. The phrase is intoned by technologists, academicians, journalists and venture capitalists alike. As with many phrases that cross over from technical academic fields into general circulation, there is... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story: Jared Diamond on David Reich's New Book
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Jared Diamond in the New York Times: For over a decade, National Geographic’s Genographic Project has been collecting saliva samples from willing participants, analyzing small pieces of their mother’s and father’s DNA (so-called mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome DNA, respectively).... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Watch How a Pop Hit Is Made
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Posted Apr 25, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Which Feminisms?
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Susan Watkins in The New Left Review: Of all the opposition movements to have erupted since 2008, the rebirth of a militant feminism is perhaps the most surprising—not least because feminism as such had never gone away; women’s empowerment has... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, New Yorker writers share their experiences of reading, watching, studying, performing, memorizing, and falling in love with the work of the Bard
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From The New Yorker: Elif Batuman: One of my most memorable encounters with Shakespeare took place in the Taurus Mountains, in 2012, where I was reporting a story about the Arslanköy Women’s Theatre Group, a rural Turkish theatre company, founded... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Why An Agnostic Philosopher Says We're All 'Religious'
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Cathy Lynn Grossman in Publishers Weekly: Stephen Asma, a philosophy professor at Columbia College in Chicago, was a childhood Catholic altar boy who grew up to become a “cultural Buddhist” and religion-skewering writer for Skeptic magazine. Now, at 51, he's... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Rooting for Elon
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Andrew Elrod in the Boston Review: For the past fifty years, after all, among the easiest and most widely accepted formulas for people to work together to change their futures has been through patterns of personal consumption. We invest our... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory
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Simina Mistreanu in Foreign Policy: Rongcheng was built for the future. Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye to future expansion, as the city sprawls on the eastern tip of China’s Shandong province overlooking the Yellow... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at 3quarksdaily
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