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The Marvels of the Solar System
Our exploration of the Solar System has revealed a remarkable diversity of landscapes, from the frozen deserts of Mars, which billions of years ago r…
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Brain Computer Interfaces
Our brains are computers. What if we could enhance their processing power? Medical technology now allows for brain signals to be read and translated …
2 years, 4 months ago
Plato and the Idea of Political Office
Is politics merely a gaslighting of the oppressed, a cloak for the rulers to exploit the ruled?
Plato’s Republic confronted the challenges of politica…
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Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906
Iran’s first revolution in 1906 provided the country with a constitution and parliament, laying the foundations for its political development over th…
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A Small History of Big Evolutionary Ideas
The theory of evolution is often described as the biggest idea in the history of humanity. But evolutionary theory itself has evolved over time, ofte…
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Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa
Literature has always played a key role in social and political life in Africa, even when it is not deliberately or obviously activist in its aims or…
2 years, 4 months ago
How AI Disrupts The Law
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI are changing our lives and society as a whole from how we shop to how we access news and make decisions.
Are…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Maths of Board Games
Why are there chess Grandmasters, but not Grandmasters of noughts and crosses (otherwise known as tic-tac-toe)? It is because chess is “harder” – but…
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance
In the early twentieth century Black creatives were America’s artistic vanguard.
In the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, African Ame…
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Writing After Windrush
They came, they saw, they felt conquered.
Turning to the later works of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, and the writing of Andrew Salkey, Edward Ka…
2 years, 4 months ago