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Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

Satyendra Nath Bose, more widely known as Satyen Bose, devoted 24 of the best years of his life to Dhaka University. On 1 ...

A great deal of the answer to the question of the rapid 19th and 20th century technological acceleration has to do with the ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...