Berfrois

December 2020

Promising Exoplanets

Promising Exoplanets

If humans are capable of instigating multiple origins of life under a broader array of circumstances than life currently exists, ought we to do it?

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Jennifer Carlson: Guns, Policing, Race

Jennifer Carlson: Guns, Policing, Race

Gun militarism doesn’t exist in opposition to gun populism, but alongside it, constituting a racial-double standard...

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The Horsemen by Ethan Edwards

The Horsemen by Ethan Edwards

The Steppe sky remains...

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Video Thrifty

Video Thrifty

The blood would be Bosco’s chocolate syrup and the guts would be ham, donated from a local butcher shop....

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Mandakini Pachauri in Vienna

Mandakini Pachauri in Vienna

I first arrived here from India three long decades ago late...

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Üsküdar was the Plymouth Rock of the Turkish Straits…

Üsküdar was the Plymouth Rock of the Turkish Straits…

Geographically vulnerable as most harbors are, Chrysopolis was better suited to commerce than war. This is why nothing remains of its Roman or Byzantine origins...

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Paul Vacca: Proust and Digital Life

Paul Vacca: Proust and Digital Life

Proust would advise us to refuse the tyranny of algorithms...

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