Stare your cat in the eyes | Professor Denis Noble
Is a man's worst nightmare his wife cheating on him? | Psychologist Carol Gilligan
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on how the universe will end: "With a whimper, not a bang"
"That's a very male view" | Konstantin Kisin vs David Aaronovitch
Why gene editing won't save us from disease | Professor Denis Noble
John Bercow: Why I am no longer a Tory
Does Genesis 1 describe the emergence of consciousness? | Joscha Bach
Slavoj Žižek on Shakespeare
What America can learn from India | S. Y. Quraishi
Are there aspects of physical reality that we will never understand? | Dr Harry Cliff #physics
Trump shows us 'the naked horrifying truth' | British philosopher on US elections
Slavoj Žižek on World War Three
What's happening to India's Indigenous peoples? | Professor Alpa Shah
Roger Penrose and Iain McGilchrist 2010 debate | Gödel's theorem
Our universe needs six numbers to function | Astrophysicist Chris Lintott
Slavoj Žižek on determinism
What is liberty without the individual? | Sophie Scott-Brown
British economist on what to do in Palestine | Guy Standing
Science does not describe the ultimate state of the universe | Philosopher Hilary Lawson
One state or two state solution? #palestine #israel #gaza #westbank
Will we ever have a theory of everything? | Avshalom Elitzur
What links seabirds and turnips? | Helen Czerski
Rent seekers are mopping up all the benefits of capitalism | Rory Sutherland #georgism #economics
Quantum mechanics explained in 1 minute | Scott Aaronson
American Coastal Elites are like an ethnicity | Amy Chua
The funny thing about Anglerfish | Scientist Frances Ashcroft
We should breed cooperatively | Professor Kristen Ghodsee #parenting
Why the selfish gene thesis is wrong | Professor Denis Noble
Cartoon neurons are ridiculous | Stuart Hameroff
Irrational people are much more powerful than rational ones | Paul Bloom
What red state voters have lost | Professor Arlie Hochschild #trump #uselection #usa
Physics directly contradicts common sense | Physicist Bernard Carr
Utilitarianism is inherently flawed | Philosophers Tommy Curry and Peter Singer
A physicist's view on panpsychism | Avshalom Elitzur #consciousness #panpsychism #physics
Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent Christina Lamb on stability vs freedom in Iraq and Libya
Former Armenian president on growing up in the Soviet Union | Armen Sarkissian
Analytic philosopher can't stand metaphysics | Patricia Churchland
Time BEGAN at the Big Bang | Paul Davies on Stephen Hawking
Avshalom Elitzur delivers powerful message to fellow Israelis
Neoliberalism and Soviet politics are the same | Political philosopher Abby Innes
We need quantum to define life | Stuart Hameroff
In quantum mechanics, the past can be changed | Avshalom Elitzur on backwards causation
There's something about time that physicists can't explain | Avshalom Elitzur
Why we don't do what we're told | Psychologist Paul Bloom
Turning whale earwax into data | Dr Helen Czerski
We have already discovered everything that is relevant | Sean Carroll on physics
The slow takeover of Indian society | Professor Alpa Shah
Science makes the world more mysterious, not less | CERN physicist Harry Cliff
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