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  This Island Appeared Out of Nowhere, With Life Forms Never Seen Before

  ScienceAlert - Science Alert

  When a new island arose from the South Pacific in 2015, it created an unprecedented opportunity not just for geologists and volcanologists, but for …

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  Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes | Quanta Magazine

  Quanta Magazine - Steve Nadis

  In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But a new result shows that in higher dimensions, an infinite number of …

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  Man Spends US$16,000 To Become a Dog, Now Worries if People Think He’s Weird

  Mashable Southeast Asia - Dale John Wong

  Have you ever wanted to become an animal so much that you went all the way? Well, that's exactly what one man in Japan almost did, and ended up getting a ton of fans on YouTube in the process. As it so happens, the man — known only as Toco — had such an overwhelming desire to become a dog that he …

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  The Philosophy of John Locke

  

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  John Locke was one of the foremost philosophers of the 17th century, whose work on the limits of understanding constitutes one of the most significant developments of modern philosophy

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  Bertrand Russell’s Paradox Explained

  thecollector.com - Luke Dunne

  Bertrand Russell, one of the most influential mathematicians, logicians, and philosophers of the 20th century, gives his name to one of the most …

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  How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories - 3 Quarks Daily

  3quarksdaily.com - S. Abbas Raza

  Bob Blaisdell in Literary Hub: Anton Chekhov’s biography in 1886-1887 is captured almost completely in the writing that he was doing. Reading the …