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...Told Him ToThat moment lends Eli the aura of a divinity. Is he God, making a personal inspection of what humanity has done to his earth? Could be: Eli is the Semitic word for a supreme being. He says that after the big flash, a voice told him to take the Bible and go West, so he might be Brigham Young leading the Mormons to Utah, or any number of cult leaders who found acolytes in California. Eli could also be a jihadist, using a holy book as his moral cue to annihilate the infidels. He acknowledges that the Bible...
Alex, who taught “History Before History: From the Origins of the Earth to the Modern Era,” says about her experience leading a course, “I reread every textbook from undergraduate and graduate school I had and picked out topics that I though were interesting in the last 13.7 billion years of the world’s history...
...report's second section, which claimed that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding faster than in any other part of the world, and that "if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 or perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at its current rate." Glaciologists have been doubtful of that 2035 date since the report came out. Although they are melting, there are tens of thousands of Himalayan glaciers, and it's hard to imagine them all disappearing in less than 30 years. (Watch TIME's video "Consequences As Himalayan Glaciers...
...comes out next year, Turkle writes about a study in which she found that people really like to talk to robots. As soon as you ask people to interact with a computer with artificial intelligence, they start unloading secrets. Robots, it seems, are less likely to take over the earth than they are daytime-television hosting jobs. (See the best travel gadgets...
...tempt of the children of Cameron; so many of them ate the leaves of The Book of Eli that it was No.1 at the Friday domestic box office. But, yea unto thee, Avatar stormed back to win the weekend. And with order restored to the heaven and the earth, the Lord God Cameron might have rested. Instead, he donned his garments for the Golden Globes awards show Sunday night. (See the best movies, TV, books and theater of the decade...