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Quanta Magazine

A Short Guide to Hard Problems

What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape.

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The New Atlantis

Does Marriage Have a Future?

From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.

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History Today

How Hertha Ayrton Made Waves

During her daily walks she had become fascinated by the sand ripples that repeatedly formed beneath the waves, only to be washed away by the retreating tide. Before long her miniature model sea in the zinc bath provided convincing evidence that the standa

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Business Insider

The Hot New MBA Hustle

Millennials’ hottest new career pivot: ditching the corporate grind to run unsexy small businesses.