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You’ve lived this life before
The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly.
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The sterilisation-seekers
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity.
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1 month, 4 weeks ago
Patterns without desires
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?.
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2 months ago
Living without my self
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence.
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2 months ago
The antibiotic trap
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis.
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2 months ago
Playing in flatland
Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that?.
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2 months, 1 week ago
When trauma becomes trope
Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking.
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2 months, 1 week ago
The house is a work of art
Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief.
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Banking beyond the law
A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state.
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2 months, 1 week ago
The hypercurious mind
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information.
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2 months, 1 week ago