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The figure who invented bitcoin has never cashed in

Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet has an overall rating of Rave based on 5 book reviews.

Gary Rivlin’s depiction of the chaotic scramble for AI supremacy in Silicon Valley reveals a range of very human lead characters.

In Beliefism, the social scientist Paul Dolan argues that prejudice against someone with different political views is as bad as other forms of discrimination

An eye-opening account of the old Soviet tactic of embedding secret agents where you’d least expect them

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

Our attempts to establish scientific proof can harden into dogma. The target of “statistical significance” leads some to massage data.

Nuclear power has long been associated with radioactive waste. But as Tim Gregory argues in his compelling book, it might save us

A philosopher challenges us to forget about ourselves in this powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishism