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Sam Ro
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Russell's Paradox: Here's Why Math Can't Have A Set Of Everything
The modern set theory axioms are very specific about how to build sets out of other sets. In partic…
Andy Kiersz
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Einstein's 1939 letter, warning of atomic weapons, just sold at auction for $3.9 million
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought a copy of Einstein's infamous 1939 letter to Roosevelt in 20…
Jenny McGrath
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Einstein's last message was a dire warning against nuclear war that's still relevant today. Here's what it said.
The Russell-Einstein manifesto warned nuclear weapons could end humanity. The physicist felt remors…
Jenny McGrath
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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This visionary article from 1932 identifies the main reason you should stop working so much
For most of history, humans relied on hard work for a subsistence livelihood, Russell wrote. But, h…
Business Insider
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This Visionary Article From 1932 Holds An Important Lesson For America's Workaholics
Although TV hadn't been invented yet in 1932, Russell foresaw the wastefulness of idle time spent w…
Corey Adwar
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A protestor who called for Americans to 'eat babies' to fight climate change at AOC's town hall was revealed as a member of a pro-Trump fringe group
The group, which was founded as a Marxist group by XX Lyndon LaRouche in the 1960s, transformed int…
Eliza Relman
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Jeff Koons was a cotton trader and 9 other things you didn't know about the connection between art and finance
3) This pioneer of the English novel railed against The Villainy of Stock Jobbers and considered tr…
Mihir Desai
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Amazing Video Shows How Beautifully Math Translates Into Life
A video titled "Beauty of Mathematics" from Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux shows exactly how t…
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Cambridge University is opening a £10 million centre to study the impact of AI on humanity
"We need to understand where this is all leading, and ensure that research in machine intelligence …
Sam Shead
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This Chart Shows The Relationship Between Hours Worked And Productivity
Russell thought that technological advancement could free people from toil. John Maynard Keynes moo…
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Between the future and the past
Yes, we’re somewhere between the future and the past. We are no longer madly in love with democracy…
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Thinkers/Thinkers 50: India needs a thinking culture
In the land that gave birth to the great Buddha and Aryabhata, it is baffling to see the paucity an…
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The youngest pope in history was a tween who ruled 3 separate times in his life
Henry III, the king of Germany and of Burgundy (a region that roughly corresponds to southeastern F…