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Victor Davis Hanson: "There is no need to mention Europe, an entire continent now returning to the cowardice of the 1930s. Its cartoonists are terrified of offending Muslim sensibilities, so they now portray the Jews as Nazis, secure that no offended Isra

human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly

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both stellar planets and interstellar (non-orbiting) planets are planemos

What Lee Smolin proposes is that a universe which produces more black holes than any other would in fact possess the laws of physics our universe does.