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Does literature help or hinder the fight for equality?
Today, the concept of human rights is being dangerously undermined. Does literature offer us a way back from the brink?
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Today, the concept of human rights is being dangerously undermined. Does literature offer us a way back from the brink?
Mark O'Connell's study of transhumanism is a portrait of a movement that believes death is our disgrace and technology our redeemer.
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Today, the concept of human rights is being dangerously undermined. Does literature offer us a way back from the brink?
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Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
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For an experienced mathematician, the greatest equations are beautiful as well as useful. Can the rest of us see what they see?
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Is it possible that we have witnessed the merger of two massive black holes?
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A century ago, European empires dominated much of the planet. Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley ask what we can learn from the past.
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Hate rock was a crucial part of previous fascist movements in the US and UK. But today’s populist far-right lacks a soundtrack.
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Today, it is taken as given that empathy is a driving force for good. But is reason a more useful and compassionate approach?
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Almost a century after a mass “exchange” of Muslim and Christian minorities, the Aegean coast sees a new wave of refugees.
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