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Even respectable voices have recently been indulging the fantasy that aliens might have visited us. Sorry to disappoint you, a Washington Post science writer says, but there’s zero evidence.

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El concepto de meritocracia goza de buena prensa; sorprendentemente, puesto que fue concebido a mediados del siglo XX para describir un estado distópico. Pero hoy en día, ponerle peros a la meritocracia granjea enseguida miradas de incomprensión, cuando no de suspicacia e indignación.

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When Americans are born on third base and think they hit a triple. I’m in line at the Target pharmacy watching a woman edge a baby stroller back and forth. Lena, the pharmacy tech, tilts her screen toward the woman and points. The information hits hard.

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In 2017, a German man who goes by the name Marco came across an article in a Berlin newspaper with a photograph of a professor he recognized from childhood. The first thing he noticed was the man’s lips. They were thin, almost nonexistent, a trait that Marco had always found repellent.

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As a new parent of boy/girl twins (at least as they were assigned at birth), I puzzle about the cultural pressure to scrutinise my infant son’s burgeoning masculinity lest it emerge as ‘toxic’.

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As the pandemic clouds lift, the percentage of Americans leaving employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in more than two decadesResume Subscription

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Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. MELVIN was a machine-learning algorithm Krenn had built, a kind of artificial intelligence.

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Individualism has been blamed for the break up of communities, personal alienation and rampant western consumerism. At the same time, with its focus on liberty and human rights, it is lauded as the crowning glory of western culture. How do we come to terms with this paradox?

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When we were dressing the original set for Agent Mulder’s office on “The X-Files,” I came up with the poster with a U.F.O. on it that reads “I Want To Believe.” And I think that’s where most people come down on the whole extraterrestrial business.

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What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is to sketch some of these potential contributions.

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A few days after Thanksgiving last year, Kurtis Minder got a message from a man whose small construction-engineering firm in upstate New York had been hacked. Minder and his security company, GroupSense, got calls and e-mails like this all the time now, many of them tinged with panic.

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When trying to explain what motivates me as a physicist, the film A Passage to India (1984) comes to mind.

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The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 1.41 billion doses have been administered across 176 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 22.7 million doses a day. In the U.S., 268 million doses have been given so far.

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The hysterectomy Ms. Noble needed to remove a fibroid was not up for discussion so far as her doctor was concerned, despite the fact that she didn’t want children. It took years of pain and an emergency room visit before she was finally granted the surgery at 37.

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Aguilar, O. (2011). Dinero, educación y moral: el cierre social de la élite tradicional chilena. En: Joignant, A. & Güell, P. (Eds.) Notables, tecnócratas y mandarines : elementos de sociología de las elites en Chile (1990-2010). Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales. Araujo, K.

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If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy. Get the New Statesman\'s Morning Call email.

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Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking. Imagine you came across a child drowning in a small pond and you were the only one around to help.

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