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05/03/2025 - 18:05

Like many synaesthetes, I discovered at a young age I had a flair for both music and languages. In music, it wasn't the physical act... →

20/02/2025 - 10:22

Last year, at age 88, I woke up in a San Francisco hospital room after having my aortic heart valve replaced by one made of a metal spring... →

12/01/2025 - 11:24

I just need my heart,” he says. As he swims across the lake, seemingly unbothered by the cold, he continues: “I trust my immune... →

23/12/2024 - 13:01

Antisemitism has also seeped into mainstream politics. President-elect Donald Trump even said before the election that if he lost,... →

01/12/2024 - 14:34

On November 15, Stepanova presented her latest book “Disappearing Act” (“Focus”), at Columbia University. This is her first work written... →

22/11/2024 - 14:29

There are infographics on how to decolonise introductory psychology courses and guides on how businesses may decolonise their work places.... →

09/11/2024 - 14:13

Both Darwin and the ship’s Captain, Robert FitzRoy, were deeply concerned with which books to take on board and how to fit as many as... →

01/11/2024 - 11:36

That day in Hebron, 67 unarmed men, women and children were slaughtered; dozens were wounded. A total of 133 Jews were murdered and... →

17/10/2024 - 13:38

Fifty years ago, as graduate students at Oxford, my wife and I were preparing to do anthropological fieldwork on the island of Sumba, in... →

02/10/2024 - 14:33

What kind of technology would we need to manufacture a new planet? Where would we find enough raw materials for our future world? How... →

20/09/2024 - 14:39

I suggested that it would be the nation-state that would give way in the long run. But not without a struggle. In the short term, the more... →

08/09/2024 - 12:37

My household is absorbed in debate over when time goes the fastest or slowest. "Slowest in the car!" yells my son. "Never!" replies my... →

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