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Netflix series based on García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” as a reason to reread the novel

Without exaggeration, Netflix's adaptation of Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece. I cannot say which of their projects could rival it for beauty. Flawlessly beautiful and unhurried, it neither wrecks the harmony nor interrupts the flow of the text. I did

Monarchies · People · Humour

Kate Middleton Turns 43!

How quickly other people's princesses grow up

Observations · Science · People

Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting to Be Known

The American astronomer Carl Sagan

Faith · Observations · Society

China on Course to Become the "Most Christian Country in the World" Within 15 Years

The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that by 2030 it may have more churchgoers than America. What can one say but: thank God!

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Higher education at Britain's finest university means:

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The editorial board of the palaeoanthropological journal Journal of Human Evolution has resigned over the publisher's imposition of artificial intelligence tools, which increased neither the efficiency nor the quality of the work, but…

In particular, it is reported that when, in the autumn of 2023, an AI-based machine assistant was brought in to edit texts, it began replacing the capital letters in proper names with lower-case ones and altering the typefaces specially used to set off terms and scientific nomenclature. As