“Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame.”
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The Salacious Middle Ages
“Medieval people feared death by celibacy as much as venereal disease, and practiced complex sexual health regimens.”
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Orcas and Ourselves
“Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them.”
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Compost Modernity!
“The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms.”
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Women in Afghanistan Are Prisoners In Their Own Homes. This is the Story of Marjan, Married at 12 to a Taliban Fighter
“Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter.”
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Walk In These
“Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them.”
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When I Lost My Intuition
“For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t.”
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Hidden in Plain Sight
“Jewish children who were ‘hidden’ in Christian families during the Holocaust have much to teach us about memory and trauma.”
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Socrates Would Be Pleased
“With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation.”
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Adjust Your Disgust
“The future of food is nutritious and sustainable – if we can overcome our instinctual revulsion to insects and lab-grown meat.”
