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Life stages
At 14, Asal is excited about her engagement. Her relatives all have their own opinions
33 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Learning styles don’t exist
A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens
Carl Hendrick
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The future
What’s the healthiest way to handle a creeping feeling that the world is ending?
15 minutes
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Gender and identity
Disarming transphobia
‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk
Quinnehtukqut McLamore
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Personality
Born that way
Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs
Gina Mireault
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship
3 minutes
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Life stages
Family passages
Each new generation learns from its elders. But familial voices now compete for influence with a chorus of urgent others
Elizabeth Svoboda
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Philosophy of mind
Philosophy’s blindspot
Education has long been ignored by contemporary philosophers. That is a myopic view that must change
David Bakhurst
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Family life
Fifty years ago, a train collided with Jack and Betty’s car. Here’s how they remember it
9 minutes
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History
The politics of pain
Medical science can only tell us so much. To understand pain, we need the cultural tools of history, philosophy and art
Rob Boddice
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Medicine
What is it like to be a paramedic, navigating human emergency?
17 minutes
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Art
At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light
6 minutes
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Self-improvement
Many wisdoms
There are no transcendent insights that rise above human difference. Yet wisdom exists if we look in the right places
Avram Alpert
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Teaching an AI to beat video games still takes human imagination
5 minutes
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Social psychology
Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader
10 minutes
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Virtues and vices
From violent criminal to loving parent – a son’s story of his father’s transformation
23 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds
3 minutes
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Life stages
An unvarnished, poetic account of a new mother’s struggle to breastfeed
3 minutes
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Stories and literature
The honesty of pornography
Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture
Kathleen Lubey
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Evolution
Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness
5 minutes
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Subcultures
The cast of ‘misfit toys’ who keep life on an idyllic tourist island afloat
7 minutes
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Ageing and death
When his elderly parents make a suicide pact, Doron struggles to accept their choice
19 minutes
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Biography and memoir
What Akiko saw at the centre of the Hiroshima blast, and the indelible mark it left
15 minutes
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Mental health
The helpful delusion
Evidence is growing that mental illness is more than dysfunction, with enormous implications for treatment
Justin Garson