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When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision

Today on TAP: States that deny rights to women are demanding that free states do their bidding—with the help of courts.

Or, for that matter, the American people

When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too. That’s part of the magic of a cultural swirl–it’s our friends, our work…

If a program designed for former slaves passes constitutional muster, then so would a program for the descendants of former slaves.

“We are going to do things to you that have never been done before,” might sound intriguing or alarming, depending on who’s speaking. In this case, it’s Donald Trump, and th…

Long Live The Overhead Revolution

A group of experts and "superforecasters" try to estimate the probability humans will go extinct by 2100.

Tips, Tricks & Takeaways from a 15th Century Arabic Sex Manual  - Life is Messy - Messy Nessy Chic

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It seems unlikely No Labels will meet its own conditions for running a presidential candidate.

A thought experiment plumbs archaeology and geology to ask whether our own species will leave a trace.

And now they don’t want to pay their employees.

New research proves something women have long suspected.

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform entertainment as we know it, from blockbusters to pornography. But the power is still in the hands of humans.

A story in the New York Times today by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman outlined how former president Donald Trump and his allies are planning to create a dictatorship if voters return him to power in 2024. The article talks about how Trump and his loyalists plan to “centralize more power in the Oval Office” by “increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.”

Could Nazi Germany have really beaten the Allies to a nuclear weapon? The question is still a matter of debate.

Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.

Here’s an update to my post ‘The Truth About Inflation’. As expected, inflation is still differential. And no, it’s not caused by government spending.

The Kosovo War lasted from February 1998 through to June 1999. In parallel with the brutal physical conflict was an online battle between hackers from Russia, the US, China, Holland and parts of th…

The reported behavior of some justices is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It’s about ethics.

For decades, telecom companies have known that lead in their networks posed risks to workers and could leach into the environment.

Before cellphones and the internet, our after-work lives were so rich and productive that you'd barely believe it.

In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworkers expressed when they discovered that he had, earlier in ... Read more

Why some AI experts are beginning to worry about the apocalypse.