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‘Second renaissance’: tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to read what had long been thought unreadable

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: kids’ art and sending Boris packing – the poll clerks’ small joys

Using schools for polling stations must have its perks. Plus, sympathy for the enslaved girl heckled by Plato

The Guardian - UK

Afternoon Update: Bonza grounded; teenager charged with murdering sister; and Plato’s final hours

Airline’s chief executive, Tim Jordan, acknowledged to staff that the airline’s fleet was repossessed by AIP Capitol, the effective lessor of the aircraft

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We live in times when dictatorial regimes make a mockery of rule of law: Former Orissa HC Chief Justice

We live in challenging times when there are persecutions, increase in polarisation on grounds of race/caste/religion, growing inequalities: S. Murlidhar

The Hindu

Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption

Researchers used AI to decipher an ancient papyrus that includes details about where Greek philosopher is buried.

LiveScience

Exploring The Top 10 Political Visionaries

Explore the impact of 10 political visionaries who have shaped the course of political thought and action.

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Discovery Of Orichalcum Ingots Fuels Speculation About Lost Atlantis

Discover the mystery of orichalcum, the legendary metal of Atlantis, found in a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Sicily.

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Discovery Of Orichalcum Ingots Fuels Speculation About Lost Atlantis

Discover the mystery of orichalcum, a legendary metal linked to Atlantis, found off the Sicily coast.

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Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer

Plato, Socrates and Aristotle wrestled with the concept of akrasia –whether it’s possible to act against what you know to be good

The Guardian - US

Discovery Of Orichalcum Ingots Fuels Speculation About Lost Atlantis

Discover the intriguing tale of orichalcum, the mythical metal linked to Atlantis, found in a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Sicily.

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Discovery Of Orichalcum Ingots Fuels Speculation About Lost Atlantis

Discover the recent finding of orichalcum ingots off Sicily, reigniting interest in the legendary metal of Atlantis.

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Were Plato and Dante munching on magic mushrooms? Probably

Professor Bill Richards’ pioneering research spans back to the 1960s — he tells Evgeny Lebedev why science takes time and how terminally ill patients could benefit from psilocybin therapy

Evening Standard

Reflecting on Bilkis Bano’s resilient pursuit of justice

The convicts in the Bilkis Bano case paint a disconcerting picture of India’s legal and penal systems, highlighting their inadequacies

The Hindu

Plato, pilates and pubs: has an Irish town found the secret to the good life?

Book claims it is ‘hard to find another currently existing society’ better than that in Skerries, near Dublin

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Economic inequality is getting worse, and it’s a threat to our republic

Americans should not pretend the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor is not a problem. Economists and philosophers have pointed out the threat, stretching back to Plato, a DePaul University political science professor writes.

The Conversation

How music heals us, even when it's sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I…

The Independent UK

What are twin flames and how does the controversial term define relationships?

Netflix is releasing ‘Escaping Twin Flames’ documentary on 8 November

Salon

Do we live in a computer simulation?

Some scientists suggest that if our reality is a simulation there may be glitches within the fabric of the universe

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The Conversation

Do we live in a computer simulation like in The Matrix? My proposed new law of physics backs up the idea

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws governing our reality are simply algorithms. The experiences we have are generated by the computational processes of an immensely advanced system.

The Guardian - UK

The top 10 allegories in fiction, from Plato to Kafka

Authors from Jonathan Swift to NoViolet Bulawayo show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

The Guardian - US

‘This is not a Trumpy, conservative education’: Florida’s controversial new SAT alternative

Will the Classic Learning Test bring ‘truth and beauty’ back into education – or is it fueling Ron DeSantis’s extremist agenda?

Evening Standard

The incredible story of the lost city of Atlantis that inspired Jason Momoa’s Aquaman

The myth of the underwater city has captured imaginations for over two thousand years

The Conversation

Contaminations, revisions, reinventions: how cultures, ancient and modern, have influenced each other

Martin Puchner’s Culture: A New World History examines “the history of humans as a culture-producing species”. At the core of this statement lies the humanities, which emerges as a collective discipline “through a desire to revive a newly recovered past – more than once”.

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Platonic Love by Abraham Cowley

A witty and engaging dance of ideas about the joining of bodies and the mixing of souls

The Guardian - AU

A tortoise: it does not live inside a shell, it is a shell

Touching a tortoise’s shell is like touching someone’s hand through glass or putting your fingertip on a static electricity ball

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