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Living without my self

2026-04-07 18:00:00

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Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence

- by Mette Leonard Høeg

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Is AI already conscious?

2026-04-06 18:01:00

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Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness

- by Aeon Video

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The antibiotic trap

2026-04-06 18:00:00

A bustling chemist shop in Kolkata, India, with customers and shelves stocked with medicines and health products.

Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis

- by Assa Doron & Alex Broom

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When trauma becomes trope

2026-04-03 18:00:00

A young boy in a car’s front seat with adults in the other seats on a dusty road with a dark, stormy sky in the background.

Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking

- by Cathy Otten

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The hidden world of plant roots

2026-04-02 18:01:00

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Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence?

- by Aeon Video

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The house is a work of art

2026-04-02 18:00:00

A modern house built over a waterfall surrounded by lush green forest, with stone and concrete architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief

- by Andrew Deming

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