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‘Where meat was once bound to the moral act of killing, it is now bound only to the market.’
While meat has played a vital part in the development of the human brain, according to the US author Harold McGee, our dependence on it could also be our undoing. The rise of meat production and consumption is proving environmentally disastrous, contributing heavily to water shortages, pollution and global warming. Knotty Objects: Steak is a brief plunge into the moral complexities of eating meat in the 21st century and some creative solutions that could help us overcome our inborn desire to eat animals.
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History of ideas
Tantra is, and was, a subversive philosophy of feminine power
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Rituals and celebrations
From roaring fire and molten glass an artist creates a healing ritual
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Producing food while restoring the planet – a glimpse of farming in the future
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Archaeology
Ancient Greek sculptures were colourful. Why does the white marble ideal persist?
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Astronomy
From zero to 5,000 – music and visuals express 30 years of exoplanet discoveries
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus
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Art
‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ – how a Surrealist group in Cairo defied repression in 1938
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Love and friendship
Skiing blind is a challenge – but it helps to have a loved one to guide you
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Thinkers and theories
Metaphysics and beyond – Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle’s indelible ideas
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