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A wondrous brew

A wondrous brew

Listen to this essay In a large hut on the edge of the Peruvian Amazon, 12 strangers gathered to transcend the modern world and find psychedelic...

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Alex K Gearin

Papers

Papers

In his short film Papers (1991), the Japanese artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation. Moving...

24.11.2025 30

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Nothing alive is alien to me

Nothing alive is alien to me

Listen to this essay In 55 BCE, on the final day of the celebrations marking the opening of the Theatre of Pompey, thousands of Romans witnessed...

24.11.2025 30

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Tristan Moyle

Not in our name

Not in our name

Listen to this essay War is as old as humanity. Long before it became a matter of law or strategy, it was written into our myths and instincts: the...

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Vincenza Falletti

Angles of love

Angles of love

In his short film Angles of Love, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks friends, family and strangers the question:...

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Our phosphorescent world

Our phosphorescent world

Listen to this essay On the Hebridean island where I live, off the western coast of Scotland, windy days are smelly ones because large amounts of...

20.11.2025 1

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Jack Lohmann

Darwin’s notebook

Darwin’s notebook

‘The American aborigines, Negroes and Europeans differ as much from each other in mind as any three races that can be named; yet I was incessantly...

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