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When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two
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Learning to be happier
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Bruce Hood
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Why make art in the dark?
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Nations and empires
Chastising little brother
Why did Japanese Confucians enthusiastically support Imperial Japan’s murderous conquest of China, the homeland of Confucius?
Shaun O’Dwyer
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Animals and humans
Why be dragons? How massive, reptilian beasts entered our collective imagination
58 minutes
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Rituals and celebrations
Flirtation, negotiation and vodka – or how to couple up in 1950s rural Poland
5 minutes
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Her blazing world
Margaret Cavendish’s boldness and bravery set 17th-century society alight, but is she a feminist poster-girl for our times?
Francesca Peacock
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Technology and the self
In the town once named Asbestos, locals ponder the voids industry left in its wake
16 minutes
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To take care of the Earth, humans must recognise that we are both a part of the animal kingdom and its dominant power
Hugh Desmond
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Pernille Yilmam
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Biology
How the world’s richest reds are derived from an innocuous Mexican insect
5 minutes
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Quantum theory
Quantum dialectics
When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two
Jim Baggott
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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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Music
Folk music was never green
Don’t be swayed by the sound of environmental protest: these songs were first sung in the voice of the cutter, not the tree
Richard Smyth
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The abyss at the edge of human understanding – a voyage into a black hole
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Fernanda Gallo
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On Jewish revenge
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Shachar Pinsker
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Stories and literature
Robert Frost’s poetic reflection on youth, as read in his unforgettable baritone
5 minutes
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Biology
Building embryos
For 3,000 years, humans have struggled to understand the embryo. Now there is a revolution underway
John Wallingford
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Sex and sexuality
After a sextortion scam, Eugene conducts an unblushing survey of masturbation
14 minutes
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Design and fashion
Sitting on the art
Given its intimacy with the body and deep play on form and function, furniture is a ripely ambiguous artform of its own
Emma Crichton Miller
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Film and visual culture
‘Bags here are rarely innocent’ – how filmmakers work around censorship in Iran
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Wellbeing
Learning to be happier
In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the science of happiness. It worked – but why?
Bruce Hood
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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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Language and linguistics
Closed captions suck. Here’s one artist’s inventive project to make them better
8 minutes