Audio
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Oceans and water
Defend the deep
Instead of letting waves of exploitation sweep through the deep ocean, we could choose to protect this vast living realm
Helen Scales
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Film and visual culture
Fear not
You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects
Mathias Clasen
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Physics
Why simplicity works
Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple?
Johnjoe McFadden
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Mood and emotion
Feeling, in situ
What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?
Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
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Thinkers and theories
When hope is a hindrance
For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act
Samantha Rose Hill
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History
Slavery en famille
The story of Marie Aymard and five generations of her family tells an intimate history of slavery in a small French town
Emma Rothschild
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Chairwork
It is a powerful, liberating therapy that lets you (literally) shift perspective on who you are, and who you could become
Scott Kellogg & Amanda Garcia Torres
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Human rights and justice
Asylum
Patients and psychiatrists at Saint-Alban in France fought against fascism side by side. What can we learn from them?
Ben Platts-Mills
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Political philosophy
What is ‘the West’?
While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear
Faisal Devji
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Education
Sex on the curriculum
Sex education is a battlefield over morals and young bodies, and has exposed fractures in American life for over a century
Kristy Slominski
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Evolution
What animals think of death
Having a concept of death, far from being a uniquely human feat, is a fairly common trait in the animal kingdom
Susana Monsó
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Music
Maestro of more than music
Look beneath the surface of Bach’s music and you will find a fascinating hidden world of numerology and cunning craft
Milton Mermikides