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Autoren sind unter anderem: Rasmus Fleischer, Jeremiah Foster,
Stefan Larsson, Mike Linksvayer, Denis Jaromil Rojo, Richard Stallman,
Victor Stone,
Armenia excels at chess. Its top player now has a shot at becoming
world champion. How did this tiny country become a giant at the game?
Levon Aronian likes to sleep late. But at 11am on a weekday in August
this year, his dreams were disturbed by what sounded like people
chanting his name. In a
Barack Obama once described the operations in Afghanistan as a
necessary war. That war has lasted eight years and General Stanley
McChrystal, the commander of the US forces there, appointed by Obama,
is urging him to deploy 40,000 more troops.
In Indochina, the US supported corrupt and
One winter morning in 1996, Border Patrol agents charged into a Los
Angeles street-corner clinic where 40 day laborers had lined up to be
tested for AIDS. One worker, Omar Sierra, had just taken his seat,
and a nurse had inserted the needle for drawing the blood. As agents
of the migra ran
Patterns in brain activity can be used to determine whether someone
is looking at a surrealist landscape by Salvador Dali or the cubist
lines of Pablo Picasso.
Yukiyasu Kamitani of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in
Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues showed 12 students dozens of
