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The Internet Archive is a Library of Alexandria for the digital age, the world’s largest digital archive of books, video, websites and music. Based in a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, its towering servers sit in what was once the church organist’s room, emitting enough heat to keep the whole building warm in winter. Overseeing the entire operation is Brewster Kahle, founder of the archive, whose goal since 1996 has been to put knowledge within everyone’s reach, no matter their location or financial circumstances.
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Join endangered whooping cranes on their perilous migratory path over North America
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Knowledge
Why David Deutsch believes good explanations are the antidote to bad philosophy
10 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
4 minutes
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Language and linguistics
Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?
9 minutes
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
8 minutes
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Ethics
Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
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Information and communication
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
36 minutes
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Knowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
11 minutes
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Information and communication
Coverage of the ‘balloon boy’ hoax forms a withering indictment of for-profit news
17 minutes