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Orcas and ourselves
Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them.
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4 months ago
The ant you can save
Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far?.
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4 months ago
Are you Confusedocene?
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?.
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4 months ago
How selfish are we?
An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition.
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4 months ago
Between being and emptiness
In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature.
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4 months ago
Can you rewire your brain?
The metaphor of rewiring offers an ideal of engineered precision. But the brain is more like a forest than a circuit board.
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4 months, 1 week ago
Victims and villains
In Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, workers are being enslaved but the boundary between victim and perpetrator is blurred.
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4 months, 1 week ago
Megastructures on Mars
Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ‘engineers’ and changed science forever.
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4 months, 1 week ago
Valuable misunderstandings
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?.
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4 months, 1 week ago
Is inherited wealth bad?
Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy.
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4 months, 1 week ago