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'Going to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years was bad enough. Reading what she wrote about me was worse'

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The birth of our system for describing web content

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How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think

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How a single, unglamorous, workaday merchant vessel tells the history of the 19th-century world in many violent chapters

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Alan Watts, for all his faults, was an imaginative and provocative thinker

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The new architecture wars

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Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter on the threat of AI [video]

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Why do other people form imaginary shapes in our minds?

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Our language, our world

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Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death

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New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

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Do the dead have a right to keep their bodies out of museums?

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Space junk surrounds Earth, posing a dangerous threat. But there is a way to turn the debris into opportunity

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Why we must seize leisurely interludes from work’s confines

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Earthbound exploration was plagued with colonialism, exploitation and extraction. Can we hope to make space any different?

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Have you been here before? The eerie sensation is the shadow of your mind searching inward for clues to its own survival

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The exam that broke society

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Panspermia theory dives under other worlds’ ocean ice crust

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Keju, China’s incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity

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Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher

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Should we celebrate the doctors who experiment on themselves?

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