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Aristotle’s Politics has wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality

If Plato was the first Western political philosopher, Aristotle was the first political scientist in today’s sense. Plato’s Republic, for instance, envisages an unworldly political utopia. But in Politics, Aristotle investigates a comprehensive range of political forms and regimes, down to their unglamorous, operational details.

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Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several Australian birds, including wild magpies and kookaburras.

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How a medieval Oxford friar used light and color to find out what stars and planets are made of

Contemporary astrophysics has, of course, vindicated Fishacre's position

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How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and colour to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth. In so doing he challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day and pre-empted the methods…

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How to discover a planet

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor and his PhD student Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced they had detected a planet orbiting…

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PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct live coverage – all the reveals and trailers

Our archived feed from the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, with exclusive reveals and interviews from Tokyo Game Show.

PC Gamer

A singing axolotl and a magical bunny team up in Billie Bust Up, a retro platformer with rhythmic boss battles and witchy movement abilities

A 3D platformer that brings back the joy of those childhood classics.

PC Gamer

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Researchers reveals how much money we need to be happy

Decades of international research have consistently shown that materialistic goals undermine wellbeing

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How much money do you need to be happy? Here’s what the research says

Over the next decade, Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire. The Tesla board recently proposed a US$1 trillion (A$1.5 trillion) compensation plan, if Musk can meet a series of ambitious growth targets.

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Across cultures and centuries, Aristotle and Confucius agree: virtue is good in moderation

What would our philosophers and spiritual leaders have to say about ‘virtue signalling’? They might be in agreement

The Guardian - AU

As CEOs predict AI will rival humans in 5 years, Shark Tank’s Daniel Lubetzky tells Gen Z to get off TikTok and study Greek philosophers to get ahead

The billionaire warns Gen Z doomscrolling on TikTok is setting them up for failure; instead, he suggests picking up the writings of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.

Fortune

Christopher Rowe obituary

Other lives: Linguist, translator and philosopher known for his work on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to admit it: Zillennials are the only normal Gen Zers

I’m a Zillennial, and I’ve decided there’s no hope for my younger comrades. Mine is the last normal age group in existence — and here’s why

Evening Standard

Why leisure matters for a good life, according to Aristotle

In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an “achievement society” in which we must become “entrepreneurs” – branding and selling ourselves; there is no time off the clock.

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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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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.

Reason

Justice Kagan Rejects "Combination Theory" Claims For Separation of Powers Cases

"A meritless public non-delegation challenge plus a meritless private nondelegation challenge cannot equal a meritorious 'combination' claim."

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Here’s What Nefertiti And Other Historical Figures Would Look Like Today (24 New Pics)

If you’ve ever wondered what historical figures would look like if they were alive right here and now, then look no further—Becca Saladin has you covered.

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Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

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Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested that AI chatbots could combat social isolation by serving as “friends” for people experiencing loneliness.

TechRadar

Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to have AI friends, but I think he's missing the point of AI, and the point of friendship

Mark Zuckerberg pitches AI as friendship supplement.

The Guardian - UK

Robin McKie gave prescient warnings about climate change

In terms of Earth, we are a dangerous species

The Guardian - UK

Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skills

The Guardian - UK

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

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How Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada reveals tensions inherent in friendship

In his second inauguration address, United States President Trump began by declaring “the golden age of America begins right now” and closed with, “and our golden age has just begun.” Between these lines, he vowed to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.”

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