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A surgical centre that can perform up to 4,000 orthopaedic operations a year is set to cut waiting times.

Article: Hartmut Rosa on Resonance (REVIEW ESSAY) - Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (born in 1965; Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, 1997) is the author of Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, translated by James C. Wagner (Polity, 2019; orig. German ed., 2016). Perhaps Rosa's book Resonance could prompt us to develop a new world-as-resonance sense of life.

Article: Fareed Zakaria on Liberalism vs. Illiberalism (REVIEW ESSAY) - The seasoned Indian American journalist, commentator, and author Fareed Zakaria (born in Mumbai in 1964; Ph.D. in government, Harvard University, 1993) has published a timely new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2024), about the print culture that emerged in Western culture after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s.

The authors of Genesis proclaim that God made the heavens and earth in less than a week. This feat must have amazed these Bronze Age authors, even though they thought the heavens extended only so far as the sky above them. For them, the heavens included only five of our solar system’s eight plan ...

A recent book takes a dim view of the Europe-centric view of the origin of science.