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Rotifers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored

2021-07-06T10:01:00Z

An ode to the rotifer – how these microscopic creatures live, die and dry out, entering a peculiar state somewhere in between

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World wide open

2021-07-06T10:00:00Z

Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness

By Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld & Damiaan Denys

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Everything you wanted to know about sudden birth (but were afraid to ask)

2021-07-05T10:01:00Z

Shoddy filmmaking, stiff acting, clinical dialogue – yes! The cult thrill of a 1960s police training film for a sudden birth

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Lies and honest mistakes

2021-07-05T10:00:00Z

Our crisis of public knowledge is an ethical crisis. Rewarding ‘truthfulness’ above ‘truth’ is a step towards a solution

By Richard V Reeves

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Riches in space

2021-07-02T13:34:38Z

Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit

By Martin Elvis

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How an infinite hotel ran out of room

2021-07-01T10:01:00Z

Some infinities are bigger than others – to understand why, you’ll need to check in to the odd world of the Hilbert Hotel

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The Margaret Mead problem

2021-07-01T10:00:00Z

Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. Why?

By Elesha J Coffman

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The same

2021-06-29T10:01:00Z

With their buzzes, clanks and whirrs, the rhythms of prison life form a meditation on conformity and freedom

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Stock-picking for humanity

2021-06-29T10:00:00Z

Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too

By Ellen Quigley

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Charting animal cognition

2021-06-28T10:01:00Z

How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings

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How important is white fear?

2021-06-28T10:00:00Z

It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong

By Mark R Reiff

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The whitewashing of Rome

2021-06-25T10:00:00Z

White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit

By Jamie Mackay

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Eve

2021-06-24T10:01:00Z

An environmental activist living off-grid in an English forest faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school

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Ideas that work

2021-06-24T10:00:00Z

Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins

By Matthieu Queloz

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Organism

2021-06-22T10:01:00Z

Roads, bridges, tunnels and trains form a grand, urban circulatory system in time-lapse footage of New York City

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Against carceral feminism

2021-06-22T10:00:00Z

Feminists who see police and prisons as their natural allies are entrenching the sexism and racism they claim to oppose

By Aya Gruber

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Out of mind

2021-06-21T10:01:00Z

How the world of emotions differs for people with aphantasia, who are unable to visualise images in their mind’s eye

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On the necessity of obedience

2021-06-18T10:00:00Z

George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery

By Tom Jones

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The Mozart effect

2021-06-17T10:01:00Z

The so-called ‘Mozart effect’ is a case study in how research can get distorted and overstated in the public imagination

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Africa writes back

2021-06-17T10:00:00Z

European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong

By D Vance Smith

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