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She looks at your papers.She asks your husband to step out.She asks you where your husband’s birthplace is.She is testing you. You answer: we were made in water in free-flowingsalt
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AFP report in Dawn: Critics and rights groups accused Modi of ramping up rhetoric against Muslims to unprecedented levels during his campaign in a bid to mobilise the Hindu majority.
Continue readingWhy Modi and His Party Failed to Achieve a Third Successive Landslide Win
Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure that they know will never fail: a table of possibilities known as the S-matrix. Matt
Continue readingThe S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis
Christopher K. Tong at The Conversation: A recent restructuring of China’s cyberforce and a document leak exposing the activities of Chinese tech firm i-Soon have shed some light on how
By Theo Nicitopoulos at Singularity Hub: On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary
The Conversation’s Curious Kids Podcast: Have you ever wondered how chameleons change color? And can they do this while they’re asleep? What about if they are able to dream? Does
Katherine Livingstone at The Conversation: Vegan and vegetarian diets are plant-based diets. Both include plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains. But there are important differences, and
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I place my body — life, in hands ofcorporate heads and engineersI am in my seat perched above a wingand through this little porthole peer. I slide my sight along
by Richard Farr at 3 Quarks Daily: Historians often ask what led to Trump’s landslide victory back in 2024. All those guilty verdicts in the “PornHush” trial certainly helped —
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Xi Chen at Aeon: Today, unlike in the 1990s, it is well established that conditions like IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), collectively known as disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs), are real
Continue readingWhy Doctors Dismiss the Gut-brain Relationship
by Liz Wolfe at Reason: On Monday, Anthony Fauci—formerly the chief medical adviser to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director—testified
By Gita Bhatt at the IMF Blog: Our biggest challenges—from global warming to demographic and technological transformations—cannot be resolved by countries acting alone. Yet just when we need greater international