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Regulars

Regulars

An American institution, the 24-hour diner contains multitudes. Depending on the time of day, it can be: a hub where decades-long regulars grab...

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The highly sensitive person

The highly sensitive person

How does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I...

yesterday 10

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Elaine Aron

Satie’s furniture music

Satie’s furniture music

In the age of ambient Spotify playlists and second screens, the idea of music designed to exist in life’s background may not seem particularly...

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She is a shaman

She is a shaman

A potent hallucinogen, ayahuasca is brewed from plants native to the Amazon rainforest. For centuries, it has been deeply intertwined with the...

03.03.2025 3

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When I lost my intuition

When I lost my intuition

Several years ago, I left my medical practice for a long vacation. On the morning of my first day back, my alarm went off. I pushed the button in...

03.03.2025 50

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Ronald W Dworkin

The winter of civilisation

The winter of civilisation

I came across Byung-Chul Han towards the end of the previous decade, while writing a book about the pleasures and discontents of inactivity. My...

28.02.2025 20

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Josh Cohen

Saving parasites

Saving parasites

Parasites can be hard to love. The very word likely summons thoughts of disease, death and just plain icky imagery of one creature invading the...

27.02.2025 8

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Hegemony and childcare

Hegemony and childcare

The Black child has no toys. He does not find around him any occasion to arouse his intellect … the early childhood of the Black always takes place...

27.02.2025 3

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Francesca Mezzenzana & Gabriel Scheidecker