Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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The lost patients of Washington state's abandoned psychiatric hospital
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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The art of translation
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The Battle of Fishkill: When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his restaurant empire in upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war
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Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster – Large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies
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The troubling history of tipping in American restaurants
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The great convergence in global equality
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The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland filed for bankruptcy in wake of hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits
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We need more nuance when talking about repatriation
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Black conservatism isn’t what you think
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China on edge as Mongolian boy is hailed as new Buddhist lama
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How should we think about our different styles of thinking?
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The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
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Finnish astronomers acquitted in defamation case related to protesting harassment – astrophysicist Christian Ott argued protests cost him postdoc position
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Saul Kripke, philosopher who found truths in semantics, dies at 81
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Don't blame Dostoyevsky - Culture, too, is a casualty of war
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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Nationalism is underrated by intellectuals
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The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
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He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
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Absolute power
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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What was the TED talk? | Some thoughts on the "inspiresting"
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
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Our ladies of the perpetual high
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A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas Eve was never the same.
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Tenement Museum virtual tour
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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Search for Jimmy Hoffa leads the FBI to Jersey City landfill
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David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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American unreality - In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world – but it is one built on shifting sands
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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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Human history gets a rewrite
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What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal?
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
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He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
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How Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Our need to get drunk in company may be innate
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Philosophy has made plenty of progress
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According to a woman tasked with checking for poison in Adolf Hitler's meals, Hitler was sympathetic to vegetarianism
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