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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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The Looting of Science Fiction
“Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.”
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The Hypercurious Mind
“ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information.”
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Toadstools and Toxins
“When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more.”
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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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Skill Nostalgia
“Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?”
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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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Adjust Your Disgust
“The future of food is nutritious and sustainable – if we can overcome our instinctual revulsion to insects and lab-grown meat.”
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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.”
