The Paulson Gift to Hebrew University
On the evening of Saturday 17 October 2026, inside the hall where the Hebrew University of Jerusalem hosts its Board of Governors, a financier…
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Culture
Essays on customs, institutions, media and ideas, and on the ways societies record, share and pass on knowledge.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Its Place in World Science
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is at once a national research organisation, an honorific learned society and a university system, and on most quantitative…
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180 Years of Scientific American
Scientific American, the American popular-science magazine, has been continuously published since its first issue on 28 August 1845, and the magazine is the oldest…
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Why Britain Needed a Popular Science Magazine in 1956
New Scientist, the international weekly English-language science and technology magazine, has been continuously published since its first issue on 22 November 1956, and the…
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The American Answer to Nature Magazine
Science, the peer-reviewed general scientific journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), has been continuously published since its first issue…
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How Nature Became the Worlds Most Influential Science Journal
Nature, the international weekly journal of science, has been continuously published since its first issue on 4 November 1869, and the journal has been,…
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How Many STEM Grads China Produces
China now produces more than five million graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects each year, more than the next four countries…
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The Semafor Two-Sided Story
A digital-media startup founded in October 2022 by Ben Smith and Justin B. Smith with $25 million in initial venture funding has, in less…
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Why Rest of World Matters
A small American nonprofit publication, founded in 2019 by Sophie Schmidt with personal investment of more than $6 million from a family trust, has,…
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Why Bloomberg for AI News
A stand-alone newsroom with more than 2,700 journalists worldwide has, in the years since 2017, built what may be the deepest and most consistent…
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The Pedagogy Behind Jewish STEM
Across the past two centuries, Jews have been over-represented in science, mathematics, and applied technology at rates that have resisted the standard sociological explanations.…
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Why So Many Jews in STEM?
Jews make up roughly 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they have won about 22 percent of all Nobel Prizes, 24 percent of…
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Why Science Speaks English
Open almost any research journal in physics, chemistry, biology or engineering today and it will be in English, whether the authors work in Tokyo,…
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