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Does personality predict support for war? a new study has a disturbing answer
Does personality predict support for war? The question sounds abstract until the week it is published, which happened to be the same week missiles hit Tehran and…
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Kama is not what you think: desire as a sacred goal
Kama is the most misunderstood word in all of Hindu philosophy. Say it to most people and they think of one thing. The Kama Sutra. Dimly lit…
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Moral Fatigue: why good people stop caring online
Moral fatigue is not apathy. That distinction matters. The person who has stopped retweeting every crisis, stopped signing every petition, stopped feeling the same spike of outrage…
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Pretend play apes: the study that changed what it means to be human
Pretend play apes. That sentence would have been scientifically controversial five years ago. It is now the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science…
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Meaning of home: when home stops being a place
Meaning of home changes. Nobody warns you when it happens, or that it will happen more than once. The first time it happens quietly. You go back…
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Are fireflies disappearing? what the science actually says
Are fireflies disappearing? The short answer is yes, in many places, measurably and quietly, for reasons that have everything to do with how humans have reorganised the…
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Why costa rica has no army and what 77 years without one actually looks like
The question of why Costa Rica has no army is worth asking this week more than most. The world is currently spending $2.4 trillion a year on…
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What is Moksha: why liberation is the aim nobody talks about
Moksha is the fourth and final aim of Purushartha, and it is the one modern life has the least language for. Dharma, we understand, at least conceptually.…
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Rainbow sea slug: the most beautiful warning sign in british waters
Rainbow sea slug is one of the most visually extraordinary creatures living in British waters, and almost nobody knows it exists. It is 3 centimetres long. Its…
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Adult ADHD : are we disordered, or just paying attention to the wrong things?
Adult ADHD has become one of the defining medical conversations of the 2020s. A 2024 meta-analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry puts the global figure at 366.3 million…
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Proto-Writing stone age: the 40,000-year-old marks that rewrote history
Proto-writing Stone Age artifacts are forcing a rewrite of one of humanity's oldest assumptions. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on…
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Hustle culture is dead. what killed it?
Hustle culture is dead. had a good run. For roughly a decade, the grind was the gospel. Wake up at 5am. Optimise every hour. Sleep when you…
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