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Economics
A tour of New York’s gaudiest neighbourhood with the Marxist geographer David Harvey
13 minutes
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Art
Defying classification, fantastical artworks reframe the racism of Carl Linnaeus
8 minutes
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Engineering
Building a prosperous future demands bold ideas. These are some of the boldest
40 minutes
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Film and visual culture
Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation
5 minutes
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Environmental history
In Kazakhstan, ‘atomic lakes’ still scar the landscape decades after Soviet nuclear tests
13 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
4 minutes
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Sports and games
Young Palestinians find fleeting moments of freedom at a West Bank skate park
13 minutes
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Philosophy of mind
‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations
3 minutes
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History of science
Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highest glass ceilings
14 minutes
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Illness and disease
Humanity eradicated smallpox 45 years ago. It’s a story worth remembering
25 minutes
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Nature and landscape
‘A culture is no better than its woods’ – what our trees reveal about us, by W H Auden
5 minutes
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Personality
A ‘little thief’ turned career criminal recounts a life on the wrong side of the law
5 minutes