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Like aliens

Jo Marchant: In search of now Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the...

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Believing and thinking

Believing and thinking The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think by...

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Neil van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler

The self-making world

The self-making world Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback by...

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Jessica Riskin

Jo Marchant: In search of now

Jo Marchant: In search of now Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the...

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In praise of the dilettante

In praise of the dilettante A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age Jean...

30.10.2026 200

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Jay Miller

The physics of getting fired

The physics of getting fired Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give...

29.10.2026 90

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Zahaan Bharmal

Hills and mountains

Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of...

29.10.2026 100

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The Amarna letters

Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of...

28.10.2026 70

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Love with nowhere to go

Love with nowhere to go Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves by Derek...

27.10.2026 350

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Derek van Zoonen

How to build real peace

How to build real peace From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can In...

26.10.2026 150

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Azize Aslan

Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti

Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of...

26.10.2026 80

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Traction!

Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars by Jennifer R Vail  ...

23.10.2026 200

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Jennifer R Vail

Other people

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally by Elizabeth Oldfield ...

22.10.2026 200

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Elizabeth Oldfield

Bhutan: the last place

Bhutan: the last place When it started to burn A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of Hohle Fels cave Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs...

22.10.2026 100

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When it started to burn

When it started to burn A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of Hohle Fels cave Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings...

21.10.2026 250

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How intuitions work

Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away by Marc A Moffett  ...

20.10.2026 350

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Marc A Moffett

Horrible, unmanly, indispensable

Horrible, unmanly, indispensable Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary...

19.10.2026 350

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Catherine Fletcher

A vocabulary for the future: nature

A vocabulary for the future: nature The secrets of Hohle Fels cave Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings Evolution of Manhattan...

19.10.2026 100

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How to be a (Roman) man

How to be a (Roman) man Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination by...

16.10.2026 350

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Catharine Edwards

The ladder of knowledge

The ladder of knowledge What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it...

15.10.2026 250

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Alexander V Gheorghiu

The secrets of Hohle Fels cave

The secrets of Hohle Fels cave Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings Evolution of Manhattan All-around junior male Green tree ants are...

15.10.2026 100

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Into the fire

Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings Evolution of Manhattan All-around junior male Green tree ants are famous in the tropics...

14.10.2026 100

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Deskilling the body

We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending by Melanie Challenger  BIO Photo by Jonas...

13.10.2026 650

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Melanie Challenger

Is everything conscious?

Is everything conscious? If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason by Sam Kimpton-Nye  ...

12.10.2026 350

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Sam Kimpton-Nye

Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings

Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings Evolution of Manhattan All-around junior male Green tree ants are famous in the tropics...

12.10.2026 100

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Barbara Ward’s vision

Barbara Ward’s vision She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals by Or...

09.10.2026 300

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Or Rosenboim

The ghetto on the lagoon

The ghetto on the lagoon Sixteenth-century Venice wanted to expel its Jews but couldn’t do without them. Its compromise was the world’s first...

08.10.2026 450

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Alexander Lee

Evolution of Manhattan

Evolution of Manhattan All-around junior male Green tree ants are famous in the tropics Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once...

08.10.2026 100

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I won’t remain alone

All-around junior male Green tree ants are famous in the tropics Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen:...

07.10.2026 450

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How to assemble science

How to assemble science Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all by Helen...

06.10.2026 650

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Helen Pearson

A life in episodes

For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past by Thomas Söderqvist  BIO All images...

05.10.2026 350

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Thomas Söderqvist

All-around junior male

All-around junior male Green tree ants are famous in the tropics Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen:...

05.10.2026 100

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Life on a hair trigger

Life on a hair trigger A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates Chicago,...

02.10.2026 500

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Megan Kang

Reason is more than a tool

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

01.10.2026 900

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Sasha Mudd

Green tree ants are famous in the tropics

Green tree ants are famous in the tropics Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet...

01.10.2026 100

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Passportless mess

Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the...

30.09.2026 200

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Don’t use the ‘C-word’

Don’t use the ‘C-word’ A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label by...

29.09.2026 300

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Matthew R Cooperberg

Paternity is poetical

Paternity is poetical The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us by Daniel...

28.09.2026 400

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Daniel Swift

Affect theory

Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the...

28.09.2026 200

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Reasoning together

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind by Emilie Prattico  BIO...

25.09.2026 300

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Emilie Prattico

Where a land ethic blooms

Where a land ethic blooms Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours...

24.09.2026 200

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Craig Maier

Britain’s last great airship

Britain’s last great airship The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the...

24.09.2026 150

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How the West was fun

The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous...

23.09.2026 100

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Toadstools and toxins

Toadstools and toxins When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more...

22.09.2026 350

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Eric Leas

He was probably right

He was probably right Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain...

21.09.2026 500

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Massimo Pigliucci

Sound guardians

The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous...

21.09.2026 100

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Cosmic amnesia

A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why? by Richard Dyer  BIO...

18.09.2026 300

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Richard Dyer

Who will taste the cherries?

Who will taste the cherries? The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world...

17.09.2026 250

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Liam Spradlin

Animal eye

The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous...

17.09.2026 100

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The meaning of fake marble

The meaning of fake marble Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous...

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