Richard Dawkins’ hypothesis buries a crucial part of life’s story.
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In some deep aquifers, cells have a chemical trick that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.
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Astronomers are learning to decode the meanings hidden in stellar songs.
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Why the “hard problem” of AI—controlling our superintelligent creations—is impossible.
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Deepfakes are taking old scams to the next level.
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Putting the focus on biodiversity.
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In my book, World Statehood: The Future of World Politics, I develop a new processual understanding of world statehood. I pose questions about world political integration, especially (1) whether and to what degree elements of world statehood exist today, (2) whether the development of further elements and functions of world statehood can be seen as a tendential direction of history, and (3) whether, and under what conditions, a world political community could be viable? These questions imply that the existence of a “world state” is not a categorical yes-or-no question, but rather we must carefully specify the elements and functions that can be associated with stateness.
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Only novels can plumb the depth of human consciousness.
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Turns out there can be a positive side to the psychopathic traits that may lurk inside all of us.
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Adaptations that once saved creatures are now putting them in peril.
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