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Explore Life’s Big Questions with the World’s Greatest Thinkers

“Wisdom Keepers” explores the timeless questions of who we are and where we are going. These fundamental questions feel especially urgent in the current context of rapid scientific innovation, thorny moral quandries and political unrest. “Wisdom Keepers,” on PBS, offers you a chance rarely found in our fast-paced lives for deep introspection through piercing interviews […]

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Society

Greenland on the Rocks

On importing the purest ice in the world to Manhattan.

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Society

The Last Paycheck

The “tough guy” manager may win for the short term, but never for the long haul.

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Society

Time and Life

The Daylight-Saving Time change we are going through this week is a nonscientific enacted political change that benefits no one.  It may even harm some people.

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2024: The Year of AI Elections

A novel factor in the coming year’s elections is how AI, which has improved with startling speed over the past 12 months, will upend political campaigns and voting processes.

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Admissions and Merit

Diversity takes many forms. And Affirmative Action as it functioned at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, the two schools named in the case, deserved tough questioning.

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