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Life on a hair trigger

2026-10-02 18:00:00

Graffiti on an underpass wall reads “PUT THE GUN DOWN” with arrows pointing down, illuminated by lights. Wet pavement in foreground.

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates

- by Megan Kang

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Green tree ants are famous in the tropics

2026-10-01 18:01:00

Collage of close-up photos of ants on greenery with varying poses; detailed view highlights ant features and textures.

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy

- by Aeon Video

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Reason is more than a tool

2026-10-01 18:00:00

Close-up photo of a circuit board with two CPU-like components showing classical portraits instead of standard chips.

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

- by Sasha Mudd

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Passportless mess

2026-09-30 18:01:00

Photo of a naked man in a vast sunflower field with a distant house under a clear blue sky.

A fool, a genius, or ‘a man who destroys everything’? Piecing together Zoran, a mythic figure of Belgrade

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Don’t use the ‘C-word’

2026-09-29 18:00:00

Microscopic image of vibrant purple and pink cellular structures with intricate patterns, resembling tissue under a microscope.

A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label

- by Matthew R Cooperberg

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Affect theory

2026-09-28 18:01:00

Digital collage featuring a silhouette of a person with arrows pointing outward over a blurred monochrome crowd.

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead

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