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This Ancient Tablet Is the Earliest Known Example of Applied Geometry
Dating back 3,700 years to Old Babylon, the artifact reveals a form of proto-trigonometry that predates Pythagoras by more than 1,000 years.
The Relatable Emotions of Depressed People From 3,000 Years Ago
"He eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him, then says, ‘Oh, my heart!’ and is dejected."
'Babylon': The Film Banned in America for Being Too Honest
Actor Brinsley Forde on the UK classic that gave black London a voice.
A Health App's AI Took on Human Doctors to Triage Patients
Robot triage could free up doctors' time for other tasks, but is likely to meet with resistance.
The Shared Experiences of Teenage Girls in Iraq and Chicago
In an effort to find out how life in Chicago and Iraq might be similar beyond bullets and blood, I talked with two teenage girls who hail from those locales about everything from crushing on boys to religion and music.
David Gray in Iraq
Nothing to remind us of the end of civilization quite like a luminous, washed out, endlessly repeating loop of David Gray singing the title word of his hit song "Babylon."
Babies, Death, and Other Things You Might Win In Babylon's Lottery
In his short story “The Library In Babylon,” Jorge Luis Borges "imagines a world":http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/armstrong/cityofdreams/texts/babylon.html when the lottery of trading small amounts for chances at larger amounts becomes insufficient...