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Freedom and choice

Food and drink

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What our fantasies about futuristic food say about us

Once ‘future foods’ were powdered and automatic, but times change and today they have become about speed and social justice

by Kelly Alexander

The body and physical health

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I chose to go flat after breast cancer surgery. I have no regrets

Breast reconstruction following surgery to remove cancer owes more to the cosmetic industry than to medical science

by Sarah Cretch

Values and beliefs

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Teaching tolerance in schools cannot avoid controversy

If tolerance of different values, lifestyles and creeds is an aim of education, how should schools teach it to children?

by Christina Easton

Freedom and choice

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Brainwashing has a grim history that we shouldn’t dismiss

Scientific research and historical accounts can help us identify and dissect the threat of ‘coercive persuasion’

by Joel E Dimsdale

Knowledge and reason

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Dare to speak your mind and together we flourish

Reason emerges through dialogue with others. To truly flourish, stop self-censoring and risk your status to speak your mind

by Hrishikesh Joshi

Learning and education

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Why I shut down an argument in my philosophy for children class

To provide the free, open conditions needed to do philosophy for children can sometimes mean restricting what gets said

by Amy Reed-Sandoval

Focus and attention

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‘Farsighted impulsivity’ and the new psychology of self-control

When people prioritise the present, it’s not because they’re being short-sighted – quite the opposite could be true

by Adam Bulley

Imagination

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Nourish your imagination and you will be forever free

The imagination is fundamental to the human experience, freeing us from physical confines and anchoring us during unrest

by Tania Zittoun