The New York Times
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Adam Liptak
– Nov 25, 2020, 9:36 PM
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court late Wednesday night barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the…
The makers of a third coronavirus vaccine announced positive results in clinical trials on Monday, setting off yet another round of excited news reports. This one, produced by a partnership between a University of Oxford research institute, its…
The Wall Street Journal
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Aaron Zitner
– Nov 24, 2020, 4:00 AM
The job and wage growth that President Trump hoped would propel him to a second term was particularly strong in metropolitan America. Yet the Americans who live where the economy is thriving most—in the nation's cities and their surrounding…
Karl Friston (University College London) Tune in for the live stream on our Facebook Page. Abstract: This presentation offers a heuristic proof (and simulations of a primordial soup) suggesting that life—or biological…
The Financial Times
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Jurek Martin and Martin Wolf
– Nov 26, 2020, 8:19 AM
Presidents of the World Bank, or investment managers generally, are rarely renaissance men or women. James Wolfensohn, who has died at the age of 86, was a glittering exception. Not only did he transform the hidebound Washington-based global…
