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Why history is always political

At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking. This description conjures...

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Rosario López

Boat people

After the end of the war in Vietnam in 1975, the phrase ‘boat people’ came to describe the Vietnamese refugees who fled the country seeking to...

19.12.2024 6

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Laboratories of the impossible

In September 1961, Richard Feynman gave the first in a series of lectures on basic physics at the California Institute of Technology. At the start...

19.12.2024 6

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Joshua Roebke

Boca Chica

Much of the world watched on in wonder and excitement when, on 13 October 2024, a rocket from Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX boosted...

18.12.2024 10

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Roaming rocks

As geological sites go, this one is easy to miss. It’s just a low rise of exposed rock along a back road in northern Wisconsin, outside a town...

17.12.2024 1

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Marcia Bjornerud

Household objects up close

In this entrancing video, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer (aka Posy) provides close-ups of a series of...

16.12.2024 10

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What’s in the rule of law?

Law was central to the British colonial project to subjugate the colonised populations and maximise their exploitation. Convinced of its...

16.12.2024 5

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Kanika Sharma

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