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‘No measure has succeeded in turning a society in which the rate has fallen below replacement levels into one where it is above 2 again. That has never happened anywhere.’
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘No measure has succeeded in turning a society in which the rate has fallen below replacement levels into one where it is above 2 again. That has never happened anywhere.’
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves.
aeon.co/essays/no-su...
aeon.co/essays/no-su...
No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
aeon.co
September 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves.
aeon.co/essays/no-su...
aeon.co/essays/no-su...
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‘When Claude Bellièvre visited the Vatican Library around 1514, he copied down a papal edict: readers must not quarrel, make noise or “cross the desks [to which books were chained] and tear them up with their feet”.’
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles
The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘When Claude Bellièvre visited the Vatican Library around 1514, he copied down a papal edict: readers must not quarrel, make noise or “cross the desks [to which books were chained] and tear them up with their feet”.’
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Olga Litvak: "Untranslated", The Hedgehog Review hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
Untranslated
The Jewish suspicion of confession is a kind of epistemological modesty, an unwillingness to examine other minds too closely.
hedgehogreview.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Olga Litvak: "Untranslated", The Hedgehog Review hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
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Einladung: Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2025, 19:00 Uhr, Filmhaus Bielefeld, August-Bebel-Str. 94
Die Mexikogruppe des Welthaus Bielefeld präsentiert den Dokumentarfilm "Mamá" (OmU). Nach Film wird der Produzent und Protagonist Xun Sero per Videokonferenz zugeschaltet sein.
www.welthaus.de/dates/dates-...
Die Mexikogruppe des Welthaus Bielefeld präsentiert den Dokumentarfilm "Mamá" (OmU). Nach Film wird der Produzent und Protagonist Xun Sero per Videokonferenz zugeschaltet sein.
www.welthaus.de/dates/dates-...
June 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Einladung: Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2025, 19:00 Uhr, Filmhaus Bielefeld, August-Bebel-Str. 94
Die Mexikogruppe des Welthaus Bielefeld präsentiert den Dokumentarfilm "Mamá" (OmU). Nach Film wird der Produzent und Protagonist Xun Sero per Videokonferenz zugeschaltet sein.
www.welthaus.de/dates/dates-...
Die Mexikogruppe des Welthaus Bielefeld präsentiert den Dokumentarfilm "Mamá" (OmU). Nach Film wird der Produzent und Protagonist Xun Sero per Videokonferenz zugeschaltet sein.
www.welthaus.de/dates/dates-...
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"Corredor Interoceánico. Una historia de imposición, despojo y violencia" por Alejandra Crail, @eluniversalmx.bsky.social : interactivos.eluniversal.com.mx/2024/corredo...
Corredor Interoceánico: Una historia de imposición, despojo y violencia | El Universal
El Corredor Interoceánico es la alternativa al Canal de Panamá. Promete desarrollo a costa de quienes viven en desigualdad y que defienden su territorio.
interactivos.eluniversal.com.mx
April 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"Corredor Interoceánico. Una historia de imposición, despojo y violencia" por Alejandra Crail, @eluniversalmx.bsky.social : interactivos.eluniversal.com.mx/2024/corredo...
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THIS ⬇️ was streamed on Russian RT channel 😵💫
March 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
THIS ⬇️ was streamed on Russian RT channel 😵💫
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President Trump has rescinded Biden-era limits on counterterrorism drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones, reverting to the looser set of rules he used in his first term, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Trump Relaxes Limits on Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Conventional War Zones
The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids, reverting to a more permissive system.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
President Trump has rescinded Biden-era limits on counterterrorism drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones, reverting to the looser set of rules he used in his first term, according to officials familiar with the matter.
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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Demain 16h dans #SciencesChrono on parlera de la création en 1640 de l'ancêtre du @mnhn.fr "le Jardin royal des herbes médicinales" lieu d'enseignement et d'étude botanique appliquée à la médecine. Et dans l'entretien archéologique on parlera de la récente découverte du tombeau de Thoutmôsis II
February 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Demain 16h dans #SciencesChrono on parlera de la création en 1640 de l'ancêtre du @mnhn.fr "le Jardin royal des herbes médicinales" lieu d'enseignement et d'étude botanique appliquée à la médecine. Et dans l'entretien archéologique on parlera de la récente découverte du tombeau de Thoutmôsis II
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551 Fragen zu NGOs hat die CDU-/CSU-Fraktion der Bundesregierung diese Woche gestellt.
Die kleine Anfrage überschreitet die Grenzen des parlamentarischen Informationshandelns, meint SOPHIE SCHÖNBERGER.
Denn der Bundestag steht nicht über den Grundrechten.
verfassungsblog.de/anfrage-bund...
Die kleine Anfrage überschreitet die Grenzen des parlamentarischen Informationshandelns, meint SOPHIE SCHÖNBERGER.
Denn der Bundestag steht nicht über den Grundrechten.
verfassungsblog.de/anfrage-bund...
February 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
551 Fragen zu NGOs hat die CDU-/CSU-Fraktion der Bundesregierung diese Woche gestellt.
Die kleine Anfrage überschreitet die Grenzen des parlamentarischen Informationshandelns, meint SOPHIE SCHÖNBERGER.
Denn der Bundestag steht nicht über den Grundrechten.
verfassungsblog.de/anfrage-bund...
Die kleine Anfrage überschreitet die Grenzen des parlamentarischen Informationshandelns, meint SOPHIE SCHÖNBERGER.
Denn der Bundestag steht nicht über den Grundrechten.
verfassungsblog.de/anfrage-bund...
