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The Wizard of Bletchley Park: Alan Turing
An American version of Alan Turing's Bombe. Credit: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Saturday was the 100th anniversary of the birth of British mathematician Alan Turing. A founding figure in the...
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Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Credit: Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis Today marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swiss-born philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His statement “Man is born free, and everywhere...
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Off the Hook: Sharks Protected From Fishing in U.S. Waters
Though Jaws—a bloody slab of Americana if there ever was one—is frequently cited as having been a major catalyst in inflaming public sentiment against sharks, the United States is actually a world...
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Honor Flight: Celebrating the Legacy of Those Who Served in World War II
The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs estimates that nearly 1,000 veterans of World War II die every day. There were 16.1 million people in the U.S. Armed Forces during the conflict. Honor Flight, a...
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The Right Jane: A Conversation with Noted Conservationist and Chimpanzee...
Jane Goodall. Credit: © Stuart Clarke For more than half a century, British primatologist Jane Goodall has been working among chimpanzees in the Gombe Streams National Park region of Tanzania,...
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2012 in Review: The Doping Controversy
Since 1938 Britannica’s annual Book of the Year has offered in-depth coverage of the events of the previous year. While the book won’t appear in print for several months, some of its outstanding...
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2012 in Review: Southern Africa’s Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation...
Since 1938 Britannica’s annual Book of the Year has offered in-depth coverage of current events. While the book won’t appear in print for several months, some of its outstanding content is already...
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Would a French Petraeus Get a Free Pass?
One of the main questions behind the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus’s affair is the exact nature of the scandal. No doubt, the infidelity with his biographer, Paula...
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Black History Spotlight: The Civil Rights Movement
Today marks the start of Black History Month. Throughout February, the Britannica Blog will spotlight significant people, places, and events in African American history. This week, we will explore the...
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Mission Accomplished: The 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War
Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. The conflict, which lasted eight years and raged with varying degrees of intensity, resulted in more than 4,000 American military...
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Everyone Will Want Flies in Their Soup: 5 Questions on Entomophagy with...
Arnold van Huis, professor in tropical entomology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Credit: courtesy of Arnold van Huis There’s another food revolution coming. And it isn’t a quiet one. It’s...
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2013 in Review: Women in Combat
Since 1938 Britannica’s annual Book of the Year has offered in-depth coverage of the events of the previous year. While the 75th anniversary edition of the book won’t appear in print for several...
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The Humanist Narrative: A Chat With Journalist and Activist Jamila Bey
Jamila Bey knows how to tell a good story. An increasingly prominent voice in the secular humanist movement, she lectures widely on atheism, race, and humor. The Washington D.C.-based journalist has...
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2013 in Review: Elephant Poaching
Since 1938 Britannica’s annual Book of the Year has offered in-depth coverage of the events of the previous year. While the 75th anniversary edition of the book won’t appear in print for several...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2009 Rare Moons (On the Occasion of the Year-Ending Blue Moon of 2009) Australia’s “Great Ocean Road” is Indeed Great! The Rolling Stones Sell Rice Krispies (Great...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2010 The Zombie Diet A Pictorial Toast to New Year’s Nanotechnology: The Science of Miniaturization (Picture Essay of the Day) The Collins Kids, “Chantilly Lace”...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2011 The Euro Turns 10 (So How’s that Working Out for You?) What Do Squirrels Do in Winter? The Realities of Homelessness Walking with the World on the Camino de...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2012 2012 in Review: Notable Anniversaries Almost Apocalypse: Five Questions for Writer and Explorer Craig Childs The Maya and the End of the World 2012 in Review:...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2013 A Clever Use of Spines 2013 in Review: Elephant Poaching First Neutrinos from Outer Space 2013 in Review: Virtual Currency Crazy-Thorax Membracid They Call it...
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Seven years, 4,783 posts, around 300 contributors. Britannica Blog has had a good run since it first came online in 2006. But new ideas come to light, new paradigms emerge, and new tasks are taken on...
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