Idea/Death What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? Francesca Minerva & Adrian Rorheim
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States Model hallucinations Psychedelics have a remarkable capacity to violate our ideas about ourselves. Is that why they make people better? Philip Gerrans & Chris Letheby
Essay/Cultures & Languages Is linguistics a science? Much of linguistic theory is so abstract and dependent on theoretical apparatus that it might be impossible to explain Arika Okrent
Essay/Economics Of money and morals Moneylending has been taboo for most of human history. So how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance? Alex Mayyasi
Essay/Cities Common ground When we think of urban public space in terms of competing rights, we create a battleground. Is there a better way to share? Farhan Samanani
Idea/Stories & Literature This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence fAIth The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why? Beth Singler
Essay/Technology & the Self Natural, shmatural Mother Nature might be lovely, but moral she is not. She doesn’t love us or want what’s best for us Molly Hodgdon
Essay/Meaning & the Good Life End-times for humanity Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why? Claire Colebrook
Idea/Ecology & Environmental Sciences Polar bears need to be fat, and they can’t be without sea ice Thea Bechshoft
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States The mathematics of mind-time The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures Karl Friston
Essay/Stories & Literature Sands of time The North Sea is rich in signs of what made the modern world. It's also a monument to what awaits us in the Anthropocene David Farrier
Essay/Internet & Communication What’s so new about news? The interesting thing about news has never been its truth or falsehood but how it explodes our sense of onrushing time Arthur Asseraf
Idea/Rituals & Celebrations How to get your kicks in the hermit kingdom of North Korea Laya Maheshwari
Essay/Beauty & Aesthetics Against flow In the myth of flow, the performer soars when the music starts. But it's grit and self-analysis until the very last bar Barbara Gail Montero
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Raising good robots We already have a way to teach morals to alien intelligences: it's called parenting. Can we apply the same methods to robots? Regina Rini
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ Abeba Birhane
Essay/Law & Justice The legal imagination Hypotheticals, fantastical beings, and a fictional omnibus: legal reasoning is made supple by its use of the imagination Maksymilian Del Mar
Idea/Computing & Artificial Intelligence The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines Ben Medlock
Essay/Subcultures Going underground Subterranean metaphors have been a powerful tool of political resistance. Today, is there anywhere left to hide? Terence Renaud
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Intelligence: a history Intelligence has always been used as fig-leaf to justify domination and destruction. No wonder we fear super-smart robots Stephen Cave
Essay/Economics The great cryptocurrency heist Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There's just one problem: trust E J Spode