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Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the discovery Cecilia Payne, Harvard's first female professor, at the College ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental health. Why is uncertainty an important intellectual value to you? I’m very ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

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