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Adam Smith, Peter Collins
The English language has travelled a long way from its origins on an obscure but fertile North Atlantic island, cobbled together with the various tongues of a series of invaders from mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Colonisation has transported English across the globe, creating distinct varieties in every region from America to India, South Africa to […]
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Gabrielle Thomas
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered alternative accounts of suffering and human behaviour, so the story goes, Jews and Christians appealed to Satan to explain why bad things […]
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Chad Engelland
Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist. For if God really were all loving and all powerful, he would take pains to be known by […]
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András Sajó
The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government. The twenty-first century presents a different challenge. Increasingly, constitutional democracy is not dismantled outside the legal order but transformed from within. Constitutions are amended, courts are restructured, electoral laws […]
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Andreas Østhagen
In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two years later, the two countries settled a maritime boundary dispute that had dragged on for four decades. That was Arctic geopolitics. In December 2024, an […]
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Steven J. Dick
A good question, you might say, and one that some astronomers asked when I presented a paper the subject at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society! The philosophy of science and of specific sciences such as physics, chemistry, and biology are well-developed fields with their own books and journals. These studies are important […]
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Rosamund Oates
In 1618, the parish clerk of St Botolph’s Aldgate, in London, wrote a detailed account of a wedding he had just witnessed, ‘because we never had the like’ before. What was so unusual about this marriage was that the groom was congenitally deaf, and used sign language instead of speech to make his vows. That […]
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Claudio Conti
The soul of modern complexity science lies in understanding, training, and controlling the interactions among millions of elementary degrees of freedom to generate emergent dynamics; in other words, to shape the effective physical laws that govern the behavior we observe. This goal has so far been achieved primarily in computer simulations and in models that […]
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Adam Smith, Peter Collins
The English language has travelled a long way from its origins on an obscure but fertile North Atlantic island, cobbled together with the various tongues of a series of invaders from mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Colonisation has transported English across the globe, creating distinct varieties in every region from America to India, South Africa to […]
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Gabrielle Thomas
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered alternative accounts of suffering and human behaviour, so the story goes, Jews and Christians appealed to Satan to explain why bad things […]
Read More
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Chad Engelland
Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist. For if God really were all loving and all powerful, he would take pains to be known by […]
Read More
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András Sajó
The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government. The twenty-first century presents a different challenge. Increasingly, constitutional democracy is not dismantled outside the legal order but transformed from within. Constitutions are amended, courts are restructured, electoral laws […]
Read More
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Andreas Østhagen
In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two years later, the two countries settled a maritime boundary dispute that had dragged on for four decades. That was Arctic geopolitics. In December 2024, an […]
Read More
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Steven J. Dick
A good question, you might say, and one that some astronomers asked when I presented a paper the subject at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society! The philosophy of science and of specific sciences such as physics, chemistry, and biology are well-developed fields with their own books and journals. These studies are important […]
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Rosamund Oates
In 1618, the parish clerk of St Botolph’s Aldgate, in London, wrote a detailed account of a wedding he had just witnessed, ‘because we never had the like’ before. What was so unusual about this marriage was that the groom was congenitally deaf, and used sign language instead of speech to make his vows. That […]
Read More
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Claudio Conti
The soul of modern complexity science lies in understanding, training, and controlling the interactions among millions of elementary degrees of freedom to generate emergent dynamics; in other words, to shape the effective physical laws that govern the behavior we observe. This goal has so far been achieved primarily in computer simulations and in models that […]
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