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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:...

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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...

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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...

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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:...

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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 100

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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 200

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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 90

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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 90

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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 70

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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 150

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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 90

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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 100

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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 100

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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 90

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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 200

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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 300

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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 90

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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 200

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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 150

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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 90

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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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Chasing la dolce vita

Chasing la dolce vita Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing All...

15.09.2026 100

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Ben Faccini

The bombarding of childhood

The bombarding of childhood It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and...

14.09.2026 150

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Natalia Kucirkova

Once upon a screen: explosive paradox

Once upon a screen: explosive paradox The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Where...

14.09.2026 90

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Penchants of the polymaths

Penchants of the polymaths The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the...

11.09.2026 200

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Mariam Sabri

Medieval mental health

Medieval mental health Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music by Katherine Harvey  ...

10.09.2026 200

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Katherine Harvey

The Chinese room

The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Where the earth meets the sky Ani Liu: eye...

10.09.2026 100

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Making revisions

The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Where the earth meets the sky Ani Liu: eye...

09.09.2026 100

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Our eloquent hands

Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done by Alison Bashford ...

08.09.2026 200

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Alison Bashford

Continental divide

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? by Shawn Miller  BIO The Peruvian...

07.09.2026 150

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Shawn Miller

The planet is… up to something

The planet is… up to something A vocabulary for the future: touch The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Where the earth meets the sky Ani Liu: eye...

07.09.2026 100

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Upend the trickle-down

Upend the trickle-down Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix The...

04.09.2026 200

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Les Coleman

Neuroqueering on the lawn

Neuroqueering on the lawn Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past...

03.09.2026 150

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Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford

More nothing now

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity by Justin Neuman  BIO A...

01.09.2026 250

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Justin Neuman

The Singapore strategies

The Singapore strategies The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus...

31.08.2026 100

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Peter A Coclanis

The fog of hunger

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it Photo by Constantine...

21.08.2026 400

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Sarah Berg

Dolphins and other lovers

Dolphins and other lovers The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous...

20.08.2026 250

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Eliran Arazi

A vocabulary for the future: touch

A vocabulary for the future: touch Being in the world: technology and humanity Charles Spence: Sensploration Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution Henri...

20.08.2026 150

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The conscience files

The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Thieves of ‘cursed’ rocks pen letters of remorse to a national park The Petrified Forest National Park in...

19.08.2026 100

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In praise of zealotry

In praise of zealotry Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? Don...

18.08.2026 150

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Geertje Bol

Worm munch matters

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them by Ella Browning  BIO...

17.08.2026 100

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Ella Browning

The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum The passion and puppetry of Ronnie Burkett Ëdhä Dädhëcha̧ | Moosehide Slide The art of museum dioramas Once...

17.08.2026 100

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The neverending house

The neverending house The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming by Consuelo...

14.08.2026 150

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Consuelo Araos

Mecca and the mall

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone by Azania Imtiaz Patel  BIO...

13.08.2026 150

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Azania Imtiaz Patel

Where the earth meets the sky

Where the earth meets the sky James Turrell: you who look Powers of ten, updated The Universe in motion Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels The...

13.08.2026 100

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Bouncy brothers

A tale of brotherhood, bouncy castles and the American dream For his celebrated short documentary Bouncy Brothers, the US director Nicholas J Santore...

12.08.2026 150

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A second sexual revolution

A second sexual revolution Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex by...

11.08.2026 150

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Rosa Campbell

How we meet the future

How we meet the future If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping?...

10.08.2026 200

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Tom Ralston

Khosheutovsky khurul

Nomadic architecture: the Nenets chum Persistence of vision III Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia The strange,...

10.08.2026 100

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