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Neuroscience
The melting brain
It’s not just the planet and not just our health – the impact of a warming climate extends deep into our cortical fissures
Clayton Page Aldern
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Progress and modernity
The great wealth wave
The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer and more equal than ever before
Daniel Waldenström
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Political philosophy
C L R James and America
The brilliant Trinidadian thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned of its dark political future
Harvey Neptune
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Mere imitation
Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just how intelligent is AI?
Deepak P
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Metaphysics
Desperate remedies
In order to make headway on knotty metaphysical problems, philosophers should look to the methods used by scientists
Nina Emery
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Evolution
How – and how not – to think about the role randomness plays in evolution
60 minutes
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Political philosophy
Citizens and spinning wheels
For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution?
Benjamin Studebaker
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Art
A prisoner in Guantánamo finds some escape in building intricate model ships
6 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
A Japanese religious community makes an unlikely home in the mountains of Colorado
9 minutes
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Targeted
For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks
Justin Garson
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Political philosophy
C L R James and America
The brilliant Trinidadian thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned of its dark political future
Harvey Neptune
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Sex and sexuality
From secret crushes to self-acceptance – a joyful chronicle of ‘old lesbian’ stories
29 minutes
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Progress and modernity
The great wealth wave
The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer and more equal than ever before
Daniel Waldenström
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Making
Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity
27 minutes
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Neuroscience
The melting brain
It’s not just the planet and not just our health – the impact of a warming climate extends deep into our cortical fissures
Clayton Page Aldern
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Education
Scenes from a school year paint a refreshingly nuanced portrait of rural America
25 minutes
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Home
Falling for suburbia
Modernists and historians alike loathed the millions of new houses built in interwar Britain. But their owners loved them
Michael Gilson
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Thinkers and theories
Rawls the redeemer
For John Rawls, liberalism was more than a political project: it is the best way to fashion a life that is worthy of happiness
Alexandre Lefebvre
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Physics
The rhythms of a star system inspire a pianist’s transfixing performance
5 minutes
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Mere imitation
Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just how intelligent is AI?
Deepak P
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Bioethics
Is it ethical to have a second child so that your first might live?
10 minutes
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Anthropology
Your body is an archive
If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records?
Helena Miton
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Art
Watch as Japan’s surplus trees are transformed into forest-tinted crayons
4 minutes
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Illness and disease
Empowering patient research
For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own diseases. It is time to listen
Charlotte Blease & Joanne Hunt
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Biology
Seeing plants anew
The stunningly complex behaviour of plants has led to a new way of thinking about our world: plant philosophy
Stella Sandford
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Meaning and the good life
‘Everydayness is the enemy’ – excerpts from the existentialist novel ‘The Moviegoer’
2 minutes
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Sex and sexuality
Sexual sensation
What makes touch on some parts of the body erotic but not others? Cutting-edge biologists are arriving at new answers
David J Linden
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Pleasure and pain
The volunteer musicians who perform in the aftermath of violence and tragedy
12 minutes