Juan Villoro In December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up a major theme of her book El infinito en un junco (The infinite in a reed): the decisive …
Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance On Friday, February 12, Paul Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation. Krugman is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a …
Photo: Mulyadi on Unsplash Juan Villoro The unusual Germany creates the impression that more words are born there than people and that more people are baptized in dictionaries than in churches. Image: Raphael Schaller on Unsplash In 1980, Günter Grass published his novel Births in the Head, or Germans Are Dying. There he speculated on …
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Photo: iLexx on iStock Juan Villoro On December 11, 2020, James Flynn, a philosopher, and psychologist who studied human intelligence evolution, died. Decisive statistics on brain performance are owed to him, a very recent field, considering that Homo sapiens has been in trouble for 315,000 years, and IQ tests have been applied for only a …
Both a tremendous athlete and a motivated student growing up in New Hampshire, it wasn’t until later in life that Jack discovered his passions in contemporary art and graduated at age 30 from Plymouth State University with a BA in Art focusing primarily on studio production. It was during his junior year there that he …
Image: Google Largest automakers by market capitalization companies: 38 total market cap: $2.233 T RankNameMarket CapPriceTodayPrice (30 days)Country1TeslaTSLA$834.17 B$880.027.84%🇺🇸 USA2ToyotaTM$213.83 B$152.850.12%🇯🇵 Japan3VolkswagenVOW3.DE$94.53 B$173.43-1.17%🇩🇪 Germany4NIONIO$91.85 B$58.928.55%🇨🇳 China5BYD002594.SZ$88.82 B$34.021.10%🇨🇳 China6DaimlerDAI.DE$75.63 B$70.70-0.17%🇩🇪 Germany7General MotorsGM$61.63 B$43.06-0.60%🇺🇸 USA8BMWBMW.DE$55.79 B$86.39-0.75%🇩🇪 Germany9HyundaiHYMTF$55.13 B$54.3528.48%🇰🇷 S. Korea10FerrariRACE$53.98 B$217.97-1.86%🇮🇹 Italy11VolvoVOLVF$51.81 B$25.85-1.00%🇸🇪 Sweden12Great Wall Motors601633.SS$49.79 B$6.362.71%🇨🇳 China13HondaHMC$48.72 B$28.180.04%🇯🇵 Japan14SAIC Motor600104.SS$44.64 B$3.829.99%🇨🇳 China15Geely0175.HK$42.11 B$4.2919.60%🇭🇰 Hong Kong16Fiat Chrysler AutomobilesFCAU$35.98 B$17.72-2.58%🇬🇧 UK17FordF$35.80 B$9.00-0.66%🇺🇸 USA18Maruti Suzuki IndiaMARUTI.NS$32.79 B$108.565.93%🇮🇳 India19XPengXPEV$32.41 B$45.451.02%🇨🇳 China20Li AutoLI$30.78 B$34.30-2.25%🇨🇳 China21Kia000270.KS$24.21 B$60.398.41%🇰🇷 S. Korea22PeugeotUG.PA$24.00 B$27.06-2.17%🇫🇷 France23Suzuki Motor7269.T$23.81 B$49.062.37%🇯🇵 Japan24Nissan7201.T$20.31 B$5.19-1.61%🇯🇵 Japan25Chongqing Changan000625.SZ$16.50 …
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Is there life beyond this planet we call home? Scientists say that the answer is more likely ‘yes’ than ‘no.’ Douglas Vakoch, astrobiologist, extraterrestrial researcher, psychologist, and president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), has not ruled out the possibility of life beyond Earth and has embraced the METI mission of finding out more and ‘educating others along …