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The Death of the Roman Republic?

Did the Roman republic die with Julius Caesar? With Cicero...

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Pluto Isn’t a Planet

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union adopted a definition of...

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Forging Better Futures for You and AI

In this last lecture, I will work to wake us...

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Education – And Its Limits

The most popular response to the challenge of automation is...

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Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?

We think of emotions as being central to our characters...

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The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?

Modern medicine's success in extending lifespans comes at an environmental...

Underwater view of a vast accumulation of plastic pollution in the ocean

The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky

On a remote mountain top in Chile, scanning the sky...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory illuminated at night under a sky filled with the Milky Way galaxy

Taming AI

In this lecture, we look at proposals to limit AI...

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A World Without Work

In the future, we may face ‘structural’ technological unemployment in...

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The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots

100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first...

Interacting spiral galaxies Arp 273, with the larger galaxy tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by its companion