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Raiders of the Lost Ark | Athens | September 29

Oscar-winning film "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which first introduced Indiana Jones to the world and crowned Steven Spielberg king of Hollywood in 1981, will be shown at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Friday, September 29, as part of the Park Your Cinema series of screenings. The admission-free screening starts at 8.30 p.m.

Turkey's top conglomerate Koç Group buys Dassault Falcon 8X Jet

Turkish conglomerate Koç Group has bought a Falcon 8X business jet manufactured by the French Dassault Aviation, becoming one of the first buyers of the business jet featuring a longer range and improved wing design.

The 14-seat business jet will be delivered to the holding in Little Rock, Arkansas in late October.

Meet the venture capitalist who launched a kickstarter for war

It was December in northern Syria and the temperature was dropping fast. Local militias fighting the Islamic State had suffered heavy casualties after a tough battle, and U.S. special operations forces urgently needed to get blankets to their partners. They turned to a small charity run by Jim Hake, a former venture capitalist who made his fortune on tech startups in California.

Ever repeat a word until it sounds weird? That’s “Semantic Satiation”

Here’s a challenge: repeat the word “brain” over and over and over and over and…you get picture. After a while, doesn’t it just sound like a random noise? B-r-a-i-n. What a weird word—is it even a word? That transformation from word to non-word, whether via reading or saying it, happens because of a tendency known as semantic satiation.

Wait—What’s A Brain?

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