Consciousness
idea
Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe
by Jonathan Simon
Bioethics
idea
Some medical devices don’t mean to be racist, but they are
by Vanessa Carbonell & Shen-yi Liao
Worry and rumination
guide
How to stop overthinking
Grappling with your thoughts will leave you even more entangled in worry. Use metacognitive strategies to break free
by Pia Callesen
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Pleasures and pastimes
idea
Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur
by Xenia Hanusiak
Knowledge and reason
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My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
by Stephen Law
Stories and literature
idea
There is nothing so deep as the gleaming surface of the aphorism
by Noreen Masud
Neuroscience
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The fascinating science of pleasure goes way beyond dopamine
by Dean Burnett
Knowledge and reason
idea
Self-knowledge is a super power – if it’s not an illusion
by Jared Peterson
Folk art
film
A joyously animated myth retells why painting is prayer to India’s Bhil people
A film by Nina Sabnani and Sher Singh Bhil
The body and physical health
idea
Magic helped us in pandemics before, and it can again
by Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Altered states
idea
Here’s to my lovely, incandescent relationship with alcohol
by Anandi Mishra
Technology
idea
When a machine decision does you wrong, here’s what we should do
by Aziz Huq
Difficult emotions
idea
When reality slips through your fingers: in search of dissociation
by Emma Černis
Poetry
film
Ideas and metal spark in beautiful unison for a welder-turned-poet
Directed by Callum Rice
Thinkers and theories
guide
How to deconstruct the world
Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida
by Peter Salmon