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Israeli officers spoke to Le Monde, in collaboration with the NGO Breaking The Silence, about the military's rules of engagement in Gaza, the acknowledged number of civilian casualties caused by its o...

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

1350 – 1166 BCE Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney, is a well-written popular account of the origin and spread of Indo-European and its branches, synthesizing historical …

Sydsvenskans testteam fick en svettig biltur i Köpenhamn.

Nine years of wrongdoing - as laid out in the independent commission's damning judgment - disfigured English football

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it

The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever: What on Earth for?

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Even when historical records already suggested they’d be there

After 28 dates in 21 days in Paris, bestselling author Louise O’Neill reveals what she learned about men, modern dating and finding love again at 39.

“With the right structure, Americans will roll up their sleeves, do the science, and trust the result,” Manoush Zomorodi writes.

Efter jublet på valnatten har de inte gjort mycket rätt. Det vi ser nu är illa skött och föga förtroendeingivande. Man har inte tagit sig samman och inte fokuserat på det väsentliga. Finns det en lång...

A friend of my daughter’s, visiting from Texas, once turned up to a dinner I was hosting 20 minutes before I had asked anyone to arrive.

It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…

In an age when fans wants limitless spending on shiny new signings, we ask whether less change can sometimes be more beneficial.

Somehow the story got through.

Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?

The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles.  The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s...

Årets val var det första där det är obligatoriskt att rapportera incidenter. Antalet rapporter har mångdubblats. Och ett parti sticker ut.

A humanist defence of knowing things

The unorthodox development isn’t that politicians caved; it’s that people noticed it. Plus, bond yields go nuts, and Trump and Xi meet to hash out China-U.S. relations.

You’re reading this in a version of the Roman alphabet. Like every other alphabet, it traces back to Proto-Sinaitic around 1700 BCE, devised by Semitic-speakers, who worked in the turquoise mines o…

It seems that Pangram and other AI-detection tools are increasingly being used to reveal to what extent texts have been written by AI as opposed to human beings. I find the usage of such tools prob…

JOHANNES ANYURU Bokmässan släpper in krigspropaganda

Is it possible to be happy while desiring nothing?

JOHANNES ANYURU Bokmässan släpper in krigspropaganda

“I was listening to “Church” by Coldplay, carrying the painting under my arm, that foggy Tuesday dawn at Cairo International Airport. Over the years, I’ve gained certain travel habits....