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Friday, 22 October 2010 13:00

Why the Doomsday Clock Should Be Abolished

Illustration: Leo Espinosa

Illustration: Leo Espinosa

Ask me to picture doomsday and I immediately think of a ticking clock. That clock image was planted in my head long before I was born, by scientists—atomic scientists, no less. In 1947, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists gave us the

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's essential detective Sherlock Holmes is engagingly rebooted for the digital age in the BBC's stellar new series, Sherlock.

Reinventing the character for an epoch of information overload, actor Benedict Cumberbatch's addled Holmes is a death "freak" — as he's derisively called by police who barely comprehend his deductive revelations — and an internet geek-for-hire who runs a site called The Science of

Friday, 22 October 2010 13:00

Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.: Universe Usshered In

4004 B.C.: It’s the beginning of time, according to 17th century Irish bishop and theologian James Ussher — and not just any old moment on

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