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Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right? | Continue reading
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Why Romantic historians acknowledge the human feelings behind the facts | Continue reading
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The experimental jazz genre where musicians invent the rules with every note | Continue reading
For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive | Continue reading
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Spinoza helps diagnose the bad ideas and sad passions that preclude us from a finer relationship with the natural world | Continue reading
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It’s time to assert the obvious: sacrificing the public for the private is a failure of modern economic thinking | Continue reading
The world’s first mass deportation, bureaucractically managed and industrial in scale, took place on American soil | Continue reading
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The belief that hard work and talent make for success is not only false, it encourages selfishness and discrimination too | Continue reading
He was a patriot and a prisoner, a delegate and a drunk; circling the globe when few Englishmen ever left their home counties | Continue reading
Maybe genes influence intelligence, but they do so with such subtlety that we might never engineer them to boost IQ | Continue reading
‘I makes shoes because of beauty. Not because of shoes’ – on craft as a calling | Continue reading
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Science today stands at a crossroads: will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? | Continue reading
Science today stands at a crossroads: will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? | Continue reading
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Some are born great. And some can achieve greatness by nurturing their creative brain with flexible and persistent thinking | Continue reading
The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core | Continue reading
For some, animal testing is ‘just science’. For others, it’s just not right | Continue reading
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The Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo is known for his dazzling experimental shorts, which craft otherworldly art from urban landscapes. In 0107 – b moll he uses nighttime images of Tokyo trains to explore some of the contrasts – physical togetherness and emotional solitude, natur … | Continue reading
From The Hunger Games to the streets: how reading dystopian fiction can inspire radical political action in the real world | Continue reading
‘I don't want to overdose my work with philosophy.’The artist Hiwa K – born in Iraqi Kurdistan and now based in Germany – is celebrated and exhibited around the globe, but he rejects what he views as the more pretentious and extravagant trappings of the art world. He says that he … | Continue reading