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Hypatia of Alexandria

2024-05-08 18:01:00

Meet Hypatia of Alexandria, a rare female – and moderate secular – public intellectual, who was murdered by religious zealots

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Decoupling

2024-05-07 18:00:00

We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it

- by Ville Lähde

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A portrait of Arthur Erickson

2024-05-06 18:01:00

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Profile of the pioneering Canadian architect whose modernist designs disintegrated boundaries between structure and place

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Why make art in the dark?

2024-05-06 18:00:00

New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and feelings of the artist

- by Izzy Wisher

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Do liberal arts liberate?

2024-05-03 18:00:00

In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life

- by Nick Romeo

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Witch: a tag that shapes social networks

2024-05-02 18:01:00

A novel study in rural China suggests that witchcraft accusations may have arisen as a means of damaging female competitors

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India and indigeneity

2024-05-02 18:00:00

a crowd of women dressed in black  face the camera

In a country of such extraordinary diversity, the UN definition of ‘indigenous’ does little more than fuel ethnic violence

- by Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati

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The skatebook

2024-05-01 18:01:00

‘60 per cent community, 40 per cent skateboarding’ – a portrait of London’s growing skate scene on animated sketchbook pages

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Alien life is no joke

2024-04-30 18:00:00

An image shows the earth horizon at night seen from space. The lights of a city glow beneath the vast starry night of space

Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific

- by Adam Frank

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My blonde GF

2024-04-29 18:01:00

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‘This girl, this woman, this… me?’ Helen shares her horrifying experience of being deepfaked for pornography

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Reimagining balance

2024-04-29 18:00:00

In the Middle Ages, a new sense of balance fundamentally altered our understanding of nature and society

- by Joel Kaye

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What would Thucydides say?

2024-04-26 18:00:00

A marble bust of Thucydides is shown on a page from an old book. The opposite page is blank.

In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian

- by Mark Fisher

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Here, hopefully

2024-04-25 18:01:00

For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms

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Emergency action

2024-04-25 18:00:00

A man and a woman in formal evening dress but with giant fish heads covering their faces are pictured beneath a bridge on the foreshore of a river

Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe?

- by Rupert Read

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Cracking chirality: the mystery of mirror molecules

2024-04-24 18:01:00

There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it

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Return of the descendants

2024-04-23 18:00:00

An early morning view across an old bridge towards the spires of a historic medieval city partially obscured by fog

I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging

- by Jessica Buchleitner

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Anaiyyun: prayer for the whale

2024-04-22 18:01:00

For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer

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Credit card nation

2024-04-22 18:00:00

Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards?

- by Sean H Vanatta

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The enchanted vision

2024-04-19 18:00:00

Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power

- by Mark Vernon

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Laura Mersini-Houghton: a quantum multiverse

2024-04-18 18:01:00

Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse

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