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An Ivy League education without the Ivy League price tag.
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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Actor and author Alan Alda on the art of communication (for good and evil), social anxiety, the mind of a billionaire, and more.
The one thing both extremes of Left and Right agree on.
The way you are advertised and marketed to is about to change, in a very big way.
While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.
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In his latest book, Selfie, Will Storr explores the history of self-obsession, and wonders how we can fix it.
Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.
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A Middle-Eastern copy of the famous ‘serio-comic’ map of Europe, with the female figures more modestly dressed
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What’s really involved in snuffing out a country’s nuclear capabilities—and is that the right war to be waging?
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The next-to-last episode of the first season is heavy on plot and character development, but packs a science and ethical punch, too. What do you do when, after a life-threatening journey […]