Tag: history
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Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that extend far back into the… more ›
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The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia in for the murder of Thomas Sankara, one of Africa’s most revered post-independence leaders who… more ›
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In April 1981, a simmering tension between the police and Brixton’s black community erupted in violence. Forty years, on Aamna Modhin revisits that weekend with those who witnessed the events… more ›
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The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›
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Processes of historical reinvention tend to accompany moments of great economic and social transformation, such as the one that we’re living through at the moment. They produce a new historical… more ›
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There has been little acknowledgment of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now. As a wet winter gives way to spring, Lisbon’s Campo das Cebolas square is… more ›
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In Paris. Exactly Seventy Years Ago. He likely arrived in Paris from Darmstadt, Germany, by train that January, exactly seventy years ago. https://computerhistory.org/blog/thinking-about-machines-and-thinking/ more ›
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