Where loneliness can lead: Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
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Pippi and the Moomins - The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
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The obesity era - Blaming individuals for obesity may be altogether wrong
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Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on?
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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Is marriage over?
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Chabuduo! Close enough…
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Nihilism
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A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’
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How to optimise your headspace on a mission to Mars
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The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
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The most popular songs today are sadder than they were fifty years ago: can cultural evolution explain this negative turn?
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
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Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary
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How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule
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Unified theory of evolution
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Romantic regimes
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Kids? Just say no
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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The play deficit
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Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
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Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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Debunking debunked
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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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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
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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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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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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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Fantasies of forced sex are common. Do they enable rape culture?
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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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Why we need to bring back the art of communal bathing
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Nuclear power is not the answer in a time of climate change
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If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
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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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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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How to reduce digital distractions: advice from medieval monks
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world
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Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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