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...Like a modern-day Socrates, Ion is programmed to keep asking questions and go “deeper and deeper” into the public’s concerns, explained Vali Malinoiu, head of blockchain at Humans.ai....
...Fresh where cut fruit wilts, abundant in comparison to the other finger fruits, grapes are both classical and decadent — the fruit of Socrates and Caravaggio....
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris, Ian Smith and Joshua Franklin...
...Stephen M Fleming is a Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at University College London....
...And then after columnist Stephen Bush comes on to talk about the opposite of virtue signalling in politics, it’s something called vice signalling....
...This is one argument that Socrates missed. Mullaney’s book is a precursor to a second planned project on Chinese computing....
...Sydney Airport Holdings, the Australian airport operator, has announced the resignation of its chief financial officer Stephen Mentzines and said it is searching for a replacement....
...In a fascinating catalogue text, curator Stephen Hebron, traces genius back to its Latin root gignere, which literally means to beget, a reflection of the ancient Roman belief that man was born with his...
...The latest was by the actor Toby Stephens, writing in March. “We need to stop trying to do the same movies over and over: the gangsters and football violence,” he wrote....
...Socrates was anxious about the move from a purely oral tradition to writing on scrolls....
...This is an understanding of philosophy – the love of wisdom – of which Socrates would have approved....
...Meanwhile, political crisis paralysed Portugal as the parliament voted down a deficit cutting plan, which resulted in the resignation of José Sócrates, the prime minister....
...Stephen Grosz returns next week...
...Socrates is said to have thought about it on a number of occasions but as he never wrote anything his views are lost....
...Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981), by Stephen Sondheim, Virgin RRP£30 The first volume of Sondheim’s collected lyrics isn’t just a tribute to his dazzling rhymes (who else could yoke together...
...But during those democratising days and months of an election campaign, it is as if Joe the Plumber were Socrates reincarnated, a requisite guest at every feast of political words....
...Much later, Haeckel remembered an impression of “the kind of noble worldly wisdom of the Greek ancients, that of a Socrates or an Aristotle”....
...He died 15 days later on January 16 1988 at St Stephen’s Hospital in Fulham. In his death-bed statement he said he suspected his vodka had been spiked with the poison....
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