Random Musing: Did ‘The Matrix’ foreshadow Jeffrey Epstein? | World News

The year 1999 was a standout year for Hollywood movies. Perhaps the imminent threat of Y2K really released people’s creative juices. In that year, we got the Star Wars prequel classic The Phantom Menace, the misunderstood manifesto of machismo Fight Club, the creepy precursor to Kevin Spacey’s behaviour in American Beauty, the kid who could […]

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Elon Musk blends science and philosophy with a question on reality: “I want to know what is real, even if it…” | World News

When the world’s richest science and tech mogul, Elon Musk, turns philosophical, it demands attention. Musk’s recent post on September 8, 2025, was not merely a tweet; it offered insight into the mind of someone actively shaping the future of humanity. With a net worth exceeding $270 billion and ambitious projects like SpaceX aiming to […]

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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]

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