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Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it

Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s…

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August Moon: Here's what to look for during all 4 major moon phases

Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.

Space

Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate and communicate information.

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18 Of The Biggest ‘Screw You’ Moments Ever Witnessed In History, As Shared Online

This netizen turned to one of Reddit’s communities to ask fellow members to share some of the most satisfying 'screw you' moments known in history.

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Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it

We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny.

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What would Socrates and Plato say about AI? Former Greek leader George Papandreou has some ideas

Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou tells Euronews Next.

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Can’t work out without music? Neither could the ancient Greeks and Romans

These days when you see people exercising, they’re usually also listening to music, whether they’re at the gym, or out jogging on the street.

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10 best greek mythology fantasy books

These classic Greek fantasies flow like ambrosia! Or really runny Greek Yogurt!

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Planet hunter Plato gets its eyes | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2025

Plato, the European Space Agency's terrestrial planet hunter spacecraft, is seen after having 24 of its 26 cameras installed.

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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was almost "based on an unproduced Indy script," says project lead: "But after reading it, I decided it was unproduced for a reason"

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: "The main research was done sitting on a couch watching the movies unspool on video tape"

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Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite!

We cannot be neutral with respect to fake news, misinformation or outright lies, says Andrew Graham, former master of Balliol College, Oxford

The Guardian - UK

The ‘courage to be’ in uncertain times − how one 20th-century philosopher defined bravery

Over the past few weeks, as negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine drag on, I’ve thought back to Feb. 28, 2025: the day of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s heated visit to the Oval Office.

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The Lost Tiger review – a big-hearted Australian kids’ film with unexpected heft

With a good voice cast and some ripe political metaphors, this film unpacks some potentially cheesy subjects without making you want to bolt for the exit

The Guardian - AU

Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato

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97 Memes That Are Way Too Real And Relatable For Comfort

We present you with a whole batch of existential and relatable memes, courtesy of the TooMeIrlForMeIrl subreddit. The post 97 Memes That Are Way Too Real And Relatable For Comfort first appeared on Bored Panda.

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What does Platonic love really mean?

If the object of your affection were to suggest that a “platonic” relationship might be of more interest to them, your heart might sink a little. The common understanding of Platonic love, so called after the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, is that it indicates a relationship of strong affection from…

The Guardian - UK

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot

Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict

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How to fix democracy? Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the first democracy in the world in Athens, but the word itself comes from the Greek demos (people) and kratos…

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Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life

A bracing conteporary account of the philosopher’s age-old prescription for living

The Independent UK

How Severance became the most uncanny, fascinating show on TV

IN FOCUS: At first, the response to Apple’s dystopian sci-fi was tepid. But it’s proved itself to be a deliciously compelling examination of what makes us human, writes Nick Hilton. Plato would have loved it

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Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually

Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves.

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What is Plato’s Symposium, the classic book drawn into the Gender Queer culture wars?

It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the principal sources of the Greek philosopher’s views on love and beauty.

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What is love? A philosopher explains it’s not a choice or a feeling − it’s a practice

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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Is math objectively real?

Scientists still debate whether our mathematical models of the universe objectively exist

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Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics

The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by profession, Coroebus won the event called the “stadion” – a footrace of just under 200 metres, run in a straight line.

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