Ideas
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Physics
Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator
Joel Frohlich
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Economics
Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
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Cognition and intelligence
What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence
Kate Fehlhaber
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Social psychology
A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Clifton Mark
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Medicine
Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice
Jacob Stegenga
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Medicine
Lifestyle changes, not a magic pill, can reverse Alzheimer’s
Clayton Dalton
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War and peace
What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?
Thomas White
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History of science
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’
Jim Baggott
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Philosophy of science
Why philosophy is so important in science education
Subrena E Smith
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Sports and games
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
Kate Raworth
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Personality
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
Christian Jarrett
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Cosmology
Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi
Michael Strauss