Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to construct 200 mosques in the country, urging the kingdom to prioritize investments in critical infrastructure such as
Recent research has confirmed the existence of enormous mountains buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface—structures far taller than Mount Everest. These mountains, located within Earth’s mantle, are around 1,000 kilometers tall, over
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Rishi Sunak, the former UK prime minister, has announced prestigious new roles at both Oxford University and Stanford University, marking a notable return to his academic roots. As reported by The Times
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Most of our world is experiencing a time of public discontent that now necessitates accomplishing a better and different driver of renewal for our cities and rural places. Let us consider a
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V. Kamakoti, director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, has sparked a nationwide debate after advocating for the “medicinal value” of cow urine during a recent public event in
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Editorial The 99th birth anniversary of Professor S. Mahalingam on January 16 passes in hushed silence, unaccompanied by the cacophonous adulation that this nation reserves for far lesser figures—a scathing indictment of
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s most popular cultural destinations, has made the unconventional decision to reduce the number of visitors it welcomes each year. Emilie Gordenker, the
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My last piece for Persuasion argued that large numbers of small, autonomous platforms—airborne and naval drones—would become an increasingly large part of 21st century warfare, and that their spread would be blocked by our current addiction to
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The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises
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We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should
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In a striking new warning, researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) predict the emergence of a controversial commercial model they call the “Intention Economy.”
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