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‘Sit down, world, and relax…’
The Preschool Poets is a short film series that pairs professional animation with poems written by four-year-olds. In this instalment, Bullets, the young poet Brayden seemingly attempts to find – or perhaps even demand – calm in a chaotic world. His words are perfectly paired with the Ukrainian animator Stas Santimov’s distinctive and fantastical animation, which sees a man sitting in a peaceful, meditative posture, even as threats arise around him.
Animator: Stas Santimov
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Family life
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
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Virtues and vices
Why Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith were divided on the virtues of vanity
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Beauty and aesthetics
In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us
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Family life
One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor
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Film and visual culture
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War and peace
A frontline soldier’s moving account of the fabled ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914
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Bioethics
What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’
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History of technology
Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy
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Animals and humans
The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net
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