The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers.
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Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
But one of California’s leading political savants, Paul Mitchell, has developed a helpful online tool to suss out the possibilities.
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Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
Akçam is widely recognized as one of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively on the Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century.
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News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
As Richard Reeves and other scholars of modern masculinity have made clear, men are not doing well.
In the summer of ‘20, pundits suggested the Rangers change their nickname.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2026
Potentially losing support from a large chunk of voters within the city of Los Angeles, who many say are more likely to vote for tax increases then voters in the county as a whole, could portend a negative outcome for the measure, pollsters and others pundits say.
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