Spot the psychopath: Psychopaths have a reputation for cunning and ruthlessness. But they are more like you and me than we care to admit
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Brainwave helmets and algorithmic copilots: A Black Mirror episode or just modern performance assessment?
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The tyranny of lawns and landlords: Renting culture puts dreams of cultivating wildness out of reach
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Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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Eating someone: Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair?
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Greta Thunberg writes climate essay for the The 1975's new album
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The Jewish case for open borders
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Absolute English - Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost?
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Before the shaking starts: Living in the shadow of Utah’s next big earthquake
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The African Anthropocene: The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the ‘we’ of the world is white and Western.
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The first socialist
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American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested
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Of vices and rears; or why I've stopped reading Jane Austen
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How to write about Africa
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Binyavanga Wainaina: 'How to write about Africa'
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Going critical - an interactive essay demonstrating how things move and spread through networks
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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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David's Ankles | An essay on imperfections
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Nugrybauti
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Rejection kills: The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone and an aching heart. That’s why social exclusion needs a health warning
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Neuroscience now points to rejection causing physical pain: how do we treat and address social exclusion?
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When a child's mental health diagnosis comes too late to help
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Nugrybauti
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The Cloudfall: An essay about how to design a truly-personalized experience
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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Kipple field notes
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There's no good reason to trust blockchain technology
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Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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The social ideology of the motorcar
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Why be nonbinary?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.”
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The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
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Communist robot dreams
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Forging Islamic science
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures
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"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973
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Growing-ups: Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life?
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Theses on libertarian municipalism
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Truth in stereotypes
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Perversions: Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done?
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Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
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What is the Muslim world?
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The fishermen and the sea
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Beauteous beasts - Humans have been breeding animals for beauty for centuries. But should we draw the line at genetically modified pets?
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