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Can We Escape from Time? https://t.co/T1RNdeFyEP

Can We Escape from Time? We have grown very used to the idea of time travel, as explored and exploited in so many movies and TV series and so much fiction. Although it feels like it’s been around forever, it isn’t an ancient archetypal story but a newborn myth, created by H.G. Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. To pu...

Our Driverless Future https://t.co/1IaKv6We3o

Our Driverless Future For generations of Americans, driving and the open road promised a kind of freedom: the ability to light out for the territory, even if the territory was only the mall one town over. Autonomous vehicles also come with the promise of freedom, the freedom of getting places without having to pay attent...

The Comey Morass https://t.co/if9QLO3D8Z

The Comey Morass One can only conclude that James Comey’s serial acts in the by now wildly inflated case of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server—there’s been no indication that national security was compromised—were those of a man who lacked the courage to stick with his own convictions. From what we know...