Psychology
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Technology and the self
Tomorrow people
For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?
Roger Luckhurst
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Cities
A lush, whirlwind tribute to the diversity of life in a northern English county
3 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
Acid media
How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD
Erik Davis
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Consciousness and altered states
A reader’s guide to microdosing
How to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus, and fire your creativity
Tunde Aideyan
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Values and beliefs
A Zen Buddhist priest voices the deep matters he usually ponders in silence
5 minutes
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Animals and humans
An animal myself
When we imagine ourselves as another creature, we become more attuned to the world around us – and better at being human
Erica Berry
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Film and visual culture
Stop-motion origami unfurls in a playful exploration of how senses overlap
3 minutes
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Philosophy of mind
What is it like to be a crab?
Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals
Kristin Andrews
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Psychosis and psychedelics
In the 1960s, psychedelic research was driven underground. Now it’s re-emerging – with lessons for the study of psychosis
Phoebe Friesen
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Consciousness and altered states
Déjà vu
Have you been here before? The eerie sensation is the shadow of your mind searching inward for clues to its own survival
Anne Cleary
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Meaning and the good life
The world turns vivid, strange and philosophical for one plane crash survivor
16 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
Animal, vegetable, mineral
Cruel and unscientific, the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis stems from a hierarchical and bigoted view of all living things
Ben Platts-Mills
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Metaphysics
Are coincidences real?
I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences
Paul Broks
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Consciousness and altered states
Stuck with the soul
The idea of the soul is obviously a nonsense, yet its immaterial mysterious nature has deep hooks in the human psyche
David P Barash
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Art
At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light
6 minutes
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Evolution
Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness
5 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
Seeing and somethingness
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience
Nicholas Humphrey
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Film and visual culture
With human help, AIs are generating a new aesthetics. The results are trippy
9 minutes
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Neuroscience
The brain repurposed our sense of physical distance to understand social closeness
5 minutes
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Knowledge
Imaginology
We need a new kind of approach to learning that shifts imagination from the periphery to the foundation of all knowledge
Stephen T Asma
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Consciousness and altered states
You need to make friends with pain to run through the Grand Canyon and back
5 minutes
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Wellbeing
A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company
3 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
For Ruskin, words couldn’t capture nature’s palette. So here it is in black and white
6 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Autistic children and adults sketch out the look and feel of their sensory world
11 minutes