On the Greek origins of the First Amendment, and what we lose when we lose the inclination to speak truth to power.
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Join Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford as he talks to Charles Godfray - Director of the Oxford Martin School – they will take…
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Michael Cook's A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity is glorious, wonderful text.
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Leo Felipe's A História Universal do After (A universal history of the afterparty) can be read in different ways. The book, published in...
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Karl Jaspers began formulating a philosophy that addressed the collapse of Enlightenment concepts of universal history and offered a perspective that could...
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Children at the United Nations International Nursery School look at a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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One of the 100 or so books that shaped a Century of Science of American Scientist's list; The Universal History of Numbers of Georges Ifrah.
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With the advent of Soviet hegemony in chess, instances of cheating and collusion became easier both to implement and to disguise.
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A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.
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To make sense of this bloody year, I had to go back to Lithuania.
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