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A quarter of a century after 1984, the nature of the State remains a life-and-death matter for some of us.

Pranav Mistry is the MIT grad behind Sixth Sense, a tool that connects the physical world with the world of data.

Research is showing that sex confers significant evolutionary advantages on species.

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