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The Origins of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations, by Nicholas Wade (HarperCollins, 256 pp., $32.00) No matter how he lands on one’s radar, Wade is worth reading. His ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in rural Germany he followed his grandfather, a ...

A 25-year-old Vietnamese engineer has co-led a study published in Nature introducing a rigorous new benchmark designed to ...