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Neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the human brain. Now he has $1.3 billion to prove it.
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Kurt Vonnegut, whose novels touched a nerve in the Sixties and beyond, called himself a space traveller and believed we were all adrift in our own lives, says Keith Miller.
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Paulo Furtado‘s insight:
"Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on. by Mick Hume"
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19May
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“Did you hear about the Oulipian stripper? She delivered a lipogram before vanishing, with an invisible wink. If this joke means nothing to you, then you are—like myself and 99.9 percent of other humans—not a member of the exclusive club of verbal wrestlers, jugglers, and tightrope-walkers who call themselves the OuLiPo, theOuvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature.”
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Paulo Furtado‘s insight:
"The child may be father to the man, but how did a girl become mother to the monster? We continue to ask that of Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) before she turned twenty."
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Empathy research is thriving these days. Several new books enthusiastically champion an increase in empathy as a cure for humanity’s ills. This enthusiasm may be misplaced, however.
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Should we try to make political theory “relevant”?
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Given that it has historically been annexed by religion, how should the non-believer mark death? Jonathan Rée dons his weeds and joins the procession. Illustration Jessica Chandler
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Fox has confirmed the long-discussed reboot of Carl Sagan’s landmark documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage starring none other than famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. …
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Computers could take some tough choices out of our hands, if we let them. Is there still a place for human judgement?
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