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Friday 14 August 2020

Love and friendship Essay Forgive and be free Hurts – your own or those done to you – keep you stuck. Forgiveness therapy can help you gain perspective and move on by Nathaniel Wade   Evolution Essay Catastrophes and calms Evolution is extraordinarily creative in the wake of a cataclysm. How does life keep steadily ticking over in between? by Renée A Duckworth

Dance Idea Lockdown dancing is both a solo conversation and a mass grieving by Dana Naomy Mills   Sex and sexuality Idea What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome by Aven McMaster

How to get promoted as a woman Own your ambitions, know your potential, seek mentors and other advice for navigating around glass ceilings and cliffs by Jan Hills

Knowledge Video Orson Welles’s psychedelic 1973 adaptation of Plato’s timeless ‘allegory of the cave’ 9 minutes   Consciousness and altered states Video Why don’t we feel pain in dreams? The answer might lie in a new frontier of neuroscience 9 minutes

Global history Essay How Aztecs told history For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices by Camilla Townsend   Design and fashion Essay What do shoes do? Partly of the earth, partly of our body, the shoe sits on the edge of an ontological threshold. Where can it transport us? by Randy Laist

Parenting and families Idea DNA testing is easy. It can also turn your family upside down by Libby Copeland   Human nature Idea Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy? by Nadine Weidman

Chemistry Video Dramatic close-ups capture something percolating and exploding – but what is it? 5 minutes   Film and visual culture Editors’ pick Video Rod Serling on how imagination turns science fiction into fact 5 minutes

Dance Film  How the acrobat and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois plays with gravity and time 5 minutes