For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.
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Democracy is in decline, regardless of how we measure it.
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An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
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Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.
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Think you should speak about 40% of the time in conversation? How about 70%?
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
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