Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?

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David Eagleman & Jack Lindsey: What Is Claude Thinking But Not Saying?

Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Against the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera

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Edward Said: Between Worlds

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NASA abandons orbit-boosting rescue mission for space observatory

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

Cancer Clinical Trials Are Excluding the Patients They Are Meant to Help

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

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Americans are indifferent to art. But they obsess over art heists. "It’s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

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