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For those who don't know, The Guardian is a British newspaper. It was founded in 1821, and along with it's sister paper The Observer, it has long been characterized by it's left-liberal political stance. In the social media age, however, the paper has become increasingly notorious for it's...

"I think, therefore I am", once proclaimed philosopher René Descartes. It is this simple proposition that would later become the standard rejoinder to those who express doubts about their own existence, but it does raise a difficult philosophical question: why is it that we're aware? If thought...

In philosophy, a long debate has persisted around the relationship between the individual and the external world, with conclusions ranging from direct realism, to metaphysical subjectivism, all the way to solipsism. An individual's cognitive experience of the world surrounding them is typically...

In 1959, Dr. Min Chueh Chang of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, discovered that it was possible to fertilize rabbit eggs in vitro, proceeding to create the first live animal ever to be conceived using this method. 19 years later, in 1978, Louise...

Throughout most of human history, aging has been considered an inevitable part of life. For about as long, myths about the possibility of avoiding aging have also persisted: from Herodotus's account of the Fountain of Youth, to Emperor Qin Shi Huang's quest to find the elixir of life, to the...

As each year passes, we are moving closer and closer to a world where it will no longer be possible to distinguish a genuine video or image from a fake one. Advances in computer generated imagery and machine intelligence capable of rendering photorealistic human image synthesis make it...

Am I the only one who thinks Don Jr. looks suspiciously swarthy for someone with two blond parents? For comparison: Ivana Trump (born 1949): Donald Trump (born 1946): Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977): Obviously, I should say for legal reasons that until conclusive evidence is presented...

This thread is not to be for the faint of heart. Only the most formidable of images belong here.

There is a growing subgenre of action films nowadays which star visibly aging actors in implausibly athletic roles, and they are now so numerous that I figure they might be worthy of their own thread here. Some of my personal favorites include: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Bruce Willis...

Just what is the optimal approach for country to take towards trade policy? Does it depend upon the country? Are there complex geopolitical factors to consider? Do trade deficits matter? Is economic self-sufficiency even worth striving for? Does globalization make corporations less accountable...