Technology

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“gives a sharp analysis of how tanks and mechanized units became the primary formations in the European Theater during World War II.”

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“A superb and well-researched account of a notorious chemical and the clash it has provoked between science and corporate doubters.”

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“Liz Heinecke has shined a light on two remarkable women whose work and friendship was a gift to each other and to the world.”

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Katherine Standefer’s memoir about the medical device that saved her life and her quest to discover what it cost in terms of the environment and human lives starts with a jolt and keeps up the pace

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Author Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, and in The Age of Living Machines provides an entertaining popular science introduction to the convergence of biology and engineering tech

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“aggregating thousands of small pieces of evidence scattered in diverse historical and modern sources to build an illuminating context in which we can begin to fathom our emotional states e

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All of us know that autonomous self-driving cars are being actively tested and will be coming to roads near us very soon.

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“Why are futurists so often wrong, and why do we even listen to them given their poor track record?”

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Over the past few days this February 2011, a computer called Watson, built and programmed by IBM researchers, has played the game of Jeopardy! against two of the contest’s best players.

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The United States is one of the most religious “first world” nations.