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Medieval moons
Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself.
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Sleep is delicious
The idea that we should reduce sleep to an efficient minimum in our lives gets something fundamentally wrong.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
Catastrophe markets
Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
One China, one world
China’s regime insists on national unity and international harmony. Is this anything more than an imperial posture?.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
The clock in our genes
The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
An African philosophy
Lansana Keita rejected Eurocentric ideas, tracing the philosophical tradition back to African Kemet or ancient Egypt.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
Desert survivors
Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cosmic imposters
We know that black holes are strange, but they could be hiding something even weirder beyond their horizons.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Bitch: a history
The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next?.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Geist in the machine
As the 18th-century war between mechanism and romanticism returns, we face a new question: can we build artificial souls?.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago