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Friday 11 September 2020

Evolution Essay Origin story Perched on the cusp between biology and chemistry, the start of life on Earth is an event horizon we struggle to see beyond by Natalie Elliot   History of ideas Essay On tact in dark times Far from a social luxury, tact becomes imperative when life is cheapened. We exercise it to show gentle respect for another by Corina Stan

Thinkers and theories Idea To Karl Jaspers, uncertainty is not to be overcome but understood by Carmen Lea Dege   Memory and nostalgia Idea In a journey through time I’ve seen the past imprinted on the present by Vicky Grut

How to save money Aside from basic needs, your financial priorities are up to you. Resist short-termism by keeping in mind your values and goals by Kim Stephenson and Pradnya Surana

Ecology and environmental sciences Video The perpetual motion of life and sand on the ‘walking islands’ of the North Sea 8 minutes   Ethics Video Does everyone deserve a respectful burial? How a terrorist’s body divided a city 22 minutes

A philosophy festival in virtual reality? The philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn goes virtual from 19 to 20 September, with livestreamed debates on COVID-19, capitalism, patriarchy, particle physics and more. Featuring world-leading thinkers such as Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett and Vandana Shiva! DISCOVER MORE

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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