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Month: November 2016

Life

Opinion | Fidel Castro, megalomaniac with a heart

JP O'Malley/November 26, 2016February 2, 2018

Consensus today after Castro’s death will be predictably whittled down to soundbites. Some on the left see him as a…

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Science

Investigation | Are we looking for missing flight MH370 in the right place?

Jonathan Durgadoo/November 20, 2016March 16, 2018

The search for missing flight MH370 has so far been focused on a 120,000 square kilometre region south west of…

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Arts

Idea | Death of the joke, rise of the factoid

Danny Denton/November 15, 2016February 2, 2018

See: my uncle was once a contestant on Mastermind. Early eighties, height of The Troubles, and, believe it or believe…

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Life

Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning

CiarĂ¡n Weafer/November 7, 2016March 15, 2018

On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…

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Science

In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?

Gerard Lynch/November 1, 2016March 8, 2018

If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…

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