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The Man Who Stole Infinity

"In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism."

Trump keeps world guessing on Iran

President Trump is pushing for a diplomatic solution with Iran while also warning of potential military action, as high-stakes talks take place in Geneva with the clock ticking on a potential deal.

Love immortal

In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Vigdis Hjorth Keeps Going Back

“To inherit or not to inherit, that is the question” for a woman who wants to make art, “as Virginia Woolf also thought,” the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth writes in her novel A House in Norway . The fictional narrator of Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” receives an

The presence of power

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel - by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon

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Democrats conflicted over Trump’s Iran push

Democrats in both chambers of Congress are conflicted over how to respond to President Trump’s deployment of military forces against Iran, with some open to launching limited strikes against the regime and others worried about triggering another war in the Middle East.